Wish: Clipping plane - own tab

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Would be great if ‘clipping planes’ had their own tab.

As it is now we have to select a clipping plane from a view in order to activate it’s settings.
This is annoying if you are working in a partially hidden view and need to activate a clipping plane.

So it would be nice if the new tab had a list of all clipping planes in the scene. These could also be named and the list would give a better overview of what clipping planes are in the scene.

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Added to the pile- thanks.

http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-28514

-Pascal

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Like this! +1

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Something like this:

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looks about right.

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One thing that might be nice to add to the FormZ tool would be non-planar clipping.

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I was just looking for this.

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Hi -

The way this works has changed a lot since this thread was started 10 years ago.
Can you provide some details about what you are looking for?
-wim

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Sure!

This is the current user flow when defining the properties of a clipping plane for a new layout detail. This is assuming the clipping plane is already created.

  1. I am in layout view so I have to switch to model view.
  2. Find the correct tiny clipping plane geometry icon so that I can edit it’s properties.
  3. Turn on properties, go to sub- properties to edit which view (detail) this clipping plane affects.
  4. I don’t remember the name of my detail in the layout so I go back to step 1 and rename the detail or take gamble and set the clipping plane for the unknown name detail.

Instead I propose:

  1. You are in your layout detail. Open a tab that shows all the clipping planes.
  2. Select a clipping plane and define it’s properties. You can recognize the correct clipping plane based it’s name and if the plane is aligned with your view. So top view would align with an XY clipping plane.
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Hi -
Thanks for that feedback.
I’ve added this thread and suggestion to RH-83795 Clipping Plane Wishes

In my experience, and I think this will be so for any tool that is come up with, it is important for a user to be organized and use names that help finding a correct “view”. I tend to use named views for any clipping plane that I create. When the clipping plane is selected when saving a named view, you can simply activate a detail, type the name of the named view and run Plan to get the required 2D section view.

At any rate, for the time being…

You can run the NewFloatingWindow to have a floating perspective view available when you are working on a layout.

If, as you suggest in your proposal, you have named the clipping plane, you can simply run SelName to select the correct clipping plane even when it’s not visible in the detail.
-wim