Toggle option for showing clipping planes in Rhino. Merged

Enscape always chooses the last activated clipping plane to clip the model, even if the clipping plane is activated not for a model view but only for a layout view.

If more than one view is activated in a clipping planes's settings you have to deactivate all selected views to bring back the full model in full mode.

This way you destroy all your layout views every time you use Enscape.

This makes no sense and proper working impossible.

The way you are handling clipping planes at the moment does not go together with other important workflows in Rhino.

I have dozens of layouts with multiple different clipping planes per page - which i think is quite normal for a CAD file.

Without deactivating all of those layout clipping planes Enscape behaves like crazy, deactivating all these clippings is not an option because it would take ages and easily produce mistakes.

The workarround is to create a "switch off" clipping plane where you activate and deactivate a clipping to bring back an unclipped model in enscape.

A simple very solution: Integrate a toggle to deactivate clipping in Enscape at all. That would be great.

Asked developers, Simon Weinberger responded:

Rhino supports multiple clipping planes while the Enscape renderer only supports a single clipping plane.

We could make the clipping plane selection more sophisticated (e.g. taking layout views into account in a different way), but more complex is not always better.

Instead we try to use a simple heuristic that users will understand work around if needed.

So unless there are a myriad of users complaining things will not change.

Feel free to forward this implicit feature request via the UI/UX team or PM as usual, though.