Views, viewports, details on layouts, clipping planes, cplanes

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I’m trying to wrap my head around how views, viewports, and views on layouts (so-called “details”) function. I cannot seem to find anywhere a coherent explanation on how they work.

As an expert user of both Revit and ArchiCAD, I’m used to having a set of saved views where all the settings are saved/linked to that particular view i.e. scale, display style, etc. These saved views are than placed on sheets/layouts where changing the saved view will update any/all instances of the views located on layouts. This seems to be different in Rhino.

First off, there seem to be a number of “hardcoded” views that aren’t listed among the named views and which can’t be deleted from the project. Correct?

Then, if the user places a detail onto a layout, there’s no dialogue which view (whether named or “hardcoded”) is placed. Rather, the user must go inside the viewport (double clicking) and then change the linked view via the dropdown arrow then “Set view” > “Named Views”.

Once the detail is placed, the user can pan around, orbit, change object styles, layer settings, etc. within the detail without affecting the named or hardcoded view. This behavior is a bit unintuitive as a Revit and ArchiCAD user but I could get over it.

I created a clipping plane in the hardcoded perspective view and saved the view as “Section” and also made sure the clipping plane only clips in the named “Section” view and not the hardcoded “Perspective” view. I’m standing in modelspace when I do this. So far so good. But when I place a detail which seems to default to “Perspective”, the clipping plane improperly clips as if it were in the “Section” view even if I choose “Perspective” and I make sure the clipping plane doesn’t clip the “Perspective” view. If I change the detail to something else like “Top” then the clipping plane doesn’t clip (as expected). How does this behavior work? Is it because I created the “Section” view from the hardcoded “Perspective” view?

Do CPlanes also behave similarly in this regard?

Also, as I understand viewports represent views on the screen independant of layouts and “named views”. When I pick a viewport arrangement i.e. the standard display of 4 viewports it seems as though Rhino remembers whatever you had displayed before. What are linked views?

I’m just incredibly confused in these relationships.

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Hi Ro-Ra, Rhino is more similar to Autocad in it’s view and sheet setup with a model space and paper space. Generally you’ll want to use a named view and lock the scale. The layer state manager (hammer in the layer dialog) will help control the detail layers.

Check out some of the 2D documentation learning material for more info.

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I think I understand them now. Named views are simply saved camera positions and that’s it. Views placed on layouts as “details” are in their own list called “Layout Views”. And then there are views in the current viewport arrangement when standing in model space called “Model Views”. “Current Viewport Arrangement” is less confusing than “Viewport Layout” which Rhino uses since the word “Layouts” are used All these 3 categories of views function independantly of one another. Correct?

One last question: are CPlanes solely associated with viewports in modelspace (“Model Views”) and with views inside layouts (“Viewport Layout”) but not “Named Views”?

Maybe the terminology “Saved Cameras” is more fitting than “Named Views”?