Hi @Rajaa,
again me bothering you for the section tools.
I’m writing to highlight the complexity of manage the section and drawings:
as you can see in the picture positioning and rotating a view along it’s section is really complex and give an approximated results.
I would like to have the drawing surrounded by a rectangle (like a detailed view) and bieng able to move and rotate freely like an object.
I don’t know how much this is hard or possible but I’m still really frustrated from the actual system when I’ve to make tech drawing of a product.
I acknowledge the frustration of positioning and rotating clipping-drawings.
This can be hard to implement because a drawing is combination of objects and is dynamic, so keeping track of transformation is not as direct as it is with objects.
A better solution might be to implement a grip point for the drawing at placement point that shows when selecting a clipping plane (that has a drawing) to help move and rotate the drawings. This is not on the list for V9, but @wim can you please help specify what is needed for an interactive move/rotate of drawings?
If you can access the Rhino WIP, we added the ability to create a static copy of the drawing (with background) that you can grab and rotate as needed, but it will not update with model changes (but of course you can always extract a new copy). There is also a prototype to interactively locate and rotate the drawings. It is still in progress, but can point you to the test command to try and see if this resolves some of the frustration.
To create a static copy of your drawing, run ExtractClippingDrawings. You can move and rotate the result freely, but it will not update with model changes.
If you create a dynamic drawing with ClippingDrawings command and want to change location and angle, run TestEditClippingDrawings command. When the dialog opens, click on the “Set…” button next to “Angle” to rotate interactively. Let me know what you think.
I’ve briefly tried the TestEditClippingDrawings command and it’e really promising.
Having a window with all the option available that update in realtime make the editing much simpler and fast.
Still I miss a more visual feedback on the placement and reference points.
When I edit a section would be helpful to see this point before changing them so one can preview the changes. Good would also be to highlight this 2 points with different color or type to clarify wich one is wich.
It’s a test command, I know, but in my 5 minute the auto-update stop working suddenly also if it was checked and completing the rotation was impossible like before.
