Would love to be able to use any surface or polysurface as a clipping plane

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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that is all

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You can use a lot of objects for Boolean subtractions and splits, as long as they at least bisect your object. I often split objects with a polysurface’s surfaces.

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for now you can use this, it works very well for most cases:

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/dynamicdisplay

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Hi,

That is of course better than using of the simple clipping planes, however doesn’t have a functionality as asked by Wynott.
I would like generally to understand if it is possible and how big should be the effort if I would need to use surface or polysurface object for clipping purposes. Here I am talking about curved surface of degree 2 and above. Same goes for polysurfaces. Is it difficult to implement?

Thanks,
Dmitriy

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I would guess yes - I think this is not something that is likely to happen soon.

-Pascal

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This would obviously be used for generating cutaways like this:

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Thanks, Pascal - fair enough.
Maybe smth will come in Rhino 7 :smiley:

Ryan, that is a perfect example!

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Hi @stevebaer,

Any plan to include freeform clipping object in Rhino 9.X?

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Dmitriy

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Not at the moment.