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Hi
when I use a section to create a drawing in rhino, I can get the hatch to appear on a clipped plane but not when I create a drawing using “drafting-sections-create drawings”. Please refer to page 3 in the 3dm.
Also if anyone knows how to make the section tabs appear in a printed drawing Elevation etc, that would be great, as sections are pretty useless if i cant indicate where they are cut other than manually doing it.
Any help would be appreciated .
Hi Stephen -
When you create the section drawings, there are options for creating hatches and “solids” (those names are under revision). The surfaces that are created as “solids” cover the hatches:
We have that issue on the list as RH-77443 ClippingDrawings: Add draworder to output
I think the answer is that you have to create those manually, but if you provide a bit more information, I’d like to make sure. What’s a “section tab”?
-wim
Thanks for your help Wim, I added a picture of some section tabs or maybe section markers… Anyway you’ll get the idea they are there in the perspective view in Rhino just not in layouts.
Just in case anyone else is looking for a solution to this the following helped but only after i deleted the existing sections I had a made and followed the steps below (I couldn’t get it to work by using “edit drawing” only a new section).
1. Getting Hatches to Appear in Your 2D Drawing
The ClippingDrawings (the drafting-sections-create drawings) command has several options in the command line that let you control the output. The key one here is ShowHatch.
After you run ClippingDrawings and select your clipping plane, before you click to place the 2D drawing, look at the command line options and click on “ShowHatch” to set it to ShowHatch=Yes. Also make sure ShowSolid is set to ShowSolid=No.
When this is enabled, Rhino will generate the proper 2D hatch patterns for all the cut areas in the resulting 2D drawing.
Hi Stephen -
That option is also available when editing the drawing:
EditClippingDrawings
Editing A. Press Enter to accept ( Angle=0 PlacementPoint PrintWidth=ByLayer DisplayColor=ByLayer ShowHatch=Yes ShowSolid=Yes AddBackground=Yes Projection=Parallel AddHidden=No AddSilhouette=Yes ShowLabel=Yes LabelStyle=Text ): ShowSolid=No
2D Drawing was updated
Just to make sure…
The proper 2D hatch is also created when “ShowSolid” is used, it’s just hidden by that surface. Turning off that layer or setting all layers to be unlocked will show that hatch.
Looks like I’ll need more details here.
I’m not sure how layouts with details come into play here? Depending on the display modes and their settings, clipping planes are visible in both model space and layout space.
If something like this is what you are after, that is perfectly possible:
-wim
