halfcoupler Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 as far as I see the Clip Cube is always rectangular to layer plane, even when it is activated on an active working plane. Alignment can only be done manually by rotating. No way to align it automatically ? Is that right ? Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 @halfcouple, you're correct, there is no "Align Clip Cube to Working Plane" command Wes Quote Link to comment
halfcoupler Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Hi Wes, thanks for the reply 🙂 Hm, thats bad, since clip cube can only be rotated around the z-axis. So is there a workaround to get a section plane as shown here: The only workaround I can imagine is to to rotate the the whole model, so the desired section plane is either parallel or perpendicular to the layer plane... Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 @halfcouple, I'm pretty sure we're limited to the clip cube being normal to the ground plane as you've shown...not sure you can get a section cut like you want without doing exactly what you've suggested. Wes Quote Link to comment
halfcoupler Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Ok, so this is a topic for the wish list ? Wonder if I'm the only one who ever stumbled over the desire to create a clip cube section of a roof parallel to the slope or similar. 😟 Background: I'm creating a stage roof with complex rigging points and confusing truss structure, where a clip cube parallel to the slope and perpendicular to the working plane could be quite helpful with drawing details. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 @halfcouple...that type of drawing is not typical in an architectural workflow as you probably know...still it would be a cool feature and in your case, a time saver! Wes Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 @halfcouple I'll certainly put in an Enhancement Request and we'll see where it goes. I think it's a good idea, thank you Wes Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) You can Section a Sheet Layer Viewport. Make a standard sheet layer Viewport of the Front view and then run the section viewport command on the Front View Viewport. The resultant viewport should give you what you need. Hope that works! Edited April 29, 2020 by markdd Quote Link to comment
halfcoupler Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Hi markdd, thanks for your help ! Yes, you are right, this is the "old" way to create section views, before clip-cube sections were introduced. You can even go one step further and put the section viewport on a design layer, edit the view and create a 3D-section-viewport. But this method is quite buggy: When the viewport very detailed it terribly slows down the whole file, I even got crashes with that. My original intention was not to create a viewport,- I wanted to focus and work on a detail in the drawing, just as it can be done normally with the clip cube, but wanted to do this on the working plane, not on the layer plane. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I agree, the ability to use the clip cube using any Working Plane as the Normal would be really useful. Quote Link to comment
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