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Clip Cube Wireframe Viewport (?)


trashcan

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Clip cube shows correctly in Design Layer renderer: Wireframe. 

Making a Viewport and Display With Clip Cube selected. 

Viewport shows the whole darn model!

Buggy-bug? Or is it supposed to work this way? 

I seem to remember that you could do Wireframe + Clip Cube in a VP

Plz halp

 

What gives? Any ideas? 

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If I understand the question correctly... 

 

Whenever I create a VP from a CC, I can nav back to that CC.

 

Whenever I create a VP that's not from a CC, and then check that box, I can create a CC on that DL but I'll have right-click on the CC to create a new VP. That workflow is a bit like creating a section on a sheet layer (like most architects do).

 

It's a bit idiosyncratic but a CC section is a section, so it want to be hidden line.

 

Hopefully some of that is helpful.

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Unless things have changed, then it is not possible to have a wireframe view of a ClipCube in a Viewport. The Viewport must be rendered in Shaded or a Renderworks Style.

 

You can get a good "Hidden Line" aproximation using the Lines and Shadows option of an Artistic Renderworks style.

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1 minute ago, markdd said:

Mark - I think what @trashcanis referring to is the visibility of the clip cube inside a sheet layer viewport rather than making a section viewport from a clip cube face.

 

Totally get that. Thought that others stated that it won't work.

 

I think the closest way to fake wireframe (albeit the most expensive rendering time) would be a to use dashed hidden line (and possibly class the dashed line).

 

Or possibly shaded without textures or colors, grey layers set to 100%, and some other fiddling to get there.

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1 minute ago, Andy Broomell said:

@Mark Aceto - we're not talking about Section Viewports at all. Just a view of a model that has Clip Cube enabled. When it comes to Wireframe mode, the Clip Cube works in the Design Layer environment, but as soon as you create a (regular!) viewport, the entire model is shown.

 

Sure but clipping a model is essentially creating a section view, so it's really just about faking the wireframe "render" of the clipped model (within the limitations of section viewports).

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Correct.

4 minutes ago, trashcan said:

Hidden line doesn't honor Clip Cubes.

 

Correct. When it comes to Clip Cube:

 

2 hours ago, Andy Broomell said:

Shaded render works in both contexts [Design Layer & Viewports]. Renderworks works in both. Hidden Line works in neither. But Wireframe is inconsistent between the two...

 

For viewports I often use Shaded Background Render with Hidden Line Foreground Render. Since Cube Cube works with one but not the other, the results are not good 😅

 

Ideally, one day Clip Cube will work in ALL contexts, thus removing any sort of inconsistency. But I'm sure there are technical limitations which makes this difficult to implement.

 

 

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there are also a lot of options buried in the advanced section settings and class settings

 

the reason i mentioned dashed hidden line is because that will reveal the... ahem... hidden lines (to look more like wireframe)

 

and there might be some other ways to juice the shaded options

 

@michaelkis the jedi master of this (and autohybrid settings / classes)

 

fake it till you make it!

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