Wish: More tools for Clipping plane

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I always wondered why the “Clipping plane” commands are scarce and their functionality is so limited. I propose to add the following commands and functionality:

  1. “Select clipping planes by name” - Selects clipping plane(s) from a vertical list similar to the ones used by the '_SelName command.

  2. “Select other clipping planes” - Inverts the selection of clipping planes after pre-selecting one or more of them.

  3. “Select active clipping plane(s)” - Selects the active clipping plane(s).

  4. “Toggle active clipping plane(s)” - Toggles the state of the active clipping plane(s), i.e. enabled clipping planes become disabled, and vice versa.

  5. “Show selected clipping planes” - Temporarily hides everything and only shows the hidden clipping planes (in a similar fashion like the ! _UnlockSelected command).

  6. “Resize clipping plane” - Resizes the selected clipping plane(s) to a user-set size. Currently, the direction handle (the line) of the clipping plane will always remain with the same size which it received initially upon building the clipping plane. This is a quite strange bug, considering that its plane could be scaled individually in either direction.

  7. Automatically name the newly created clipping planes with some basic name such like “Clipping plane 01”, “Clipping plane 02”, “Clipping plane 03”, etc. Currently, clipping planes are not given names by default, which is counter-productive, because this way they can’t be selected via the '_SelName.

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hi Bobi, I like your wish list, but bear in mind Rhino already has selclippingplane.

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You are right, my bad. :slight_smile: I edited my first request to an even better functionality.

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