Is there any way to show the name of the active CPlane in each viewport, or a plugin that will do the same? I’ve just been caught out for the nth time today drawing on the wrong plane and the novelty is wearing off… I’ve got the CPlane as one of the selected items that flicks by on the status bar, …

I just noticed this morning that the name of the active CPlane is now updating in the Status Bar. Thanks for that, McNeel. Rhino for WIN Version 7 SR16 (7.16.22067.13001, 2022-03-08) Regards R.Santos

Good morning Andrew. In case this information may help you , if one layer of the NamedCPlane panel is selected, the Icon will be displayed in the Viewport. LMB in the empty area deselect all layers will hide the icon (make sense). [image] Regards R.Santos

Funny. :slight_smile: My Rhino 7 is a newer version than yours, yet, it still does not show the correct name of the active CPlane… I’m using Rhino 7 SR17 (7.17.22069.3001, 2022-03-10). [Screen Shot 03-22-22 at 02.14 PM.PNG]

Hm, this works here but for the Biig Three not until they are explicitly set from the Panel. And for a named cplane, not until it has been restored - that is, not on initially saving - I’ll see if we can get that tuned up. RH-68003 Status bar info: Current CPlane name is not always shown -Pascal

[image] Rhino_Bulgaria: Funny. :slight_smile: My Rhino 7 is a newer version than yours, yet, it still does not show the correct name of the active CPlane… I’m using Rhino 7 SR17 (7.17.22069.3001, 2022-03-10). Strange, it’s still working as expected here this morning ? Tested scenarios: Dou…

It always shows the same “CPlane name: None” in the Status bar, no matter how I change the CPlane and how many times. Must be a bug with the code of Rhino 7.

[image] Rhino_Bulgaria: It always shows the same “CPlane name: None” in the Status bar, no matter how I change the CPlane and how many times. Must be a bug with the code of Rhino 7 Frankly, I don’t get how it works internally, it started to work here suddenly but I am aware that this feature …

The bug is still present in the latest Rhino 7 SR19 (7.19.22130.15001, 2022-05-10). :slight_smile:

That pesky bug is still alive and refuses to disappear. :smiley: No matter how many times I will switch to another CPlane, no matter how many times I save and them open the file, the Status bar still shows “CPlane name: None”… [Status bar bug 1.PNG]

Show name of current CPlane?

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will (Will Pearson) April 13, 2022, 10:22am 31

RH-68003 is fixed in the latest WIP

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