topic Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping in AutoCAD Plant 3D Forum

Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:21:30 GMT

Hi,

Is there anyone of you who knows how to clip views while on 3D modeling? clipping views that we can easily adjust whatever we want to hide parts of the walls or part of equipment's so that we can have a better view in routing pipe, measuring certain distances and can minimize the graphic size a 3D model while working on it. Sort of a "SECTIONING" command on navisworks. Thank you

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h_eger — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:31:52 GMT

Dear @Anonymous,

please give your vote on the Idea Station.
Currently, this feature is not available in Plant 3D.

IdeaStation Link

Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

jabowabo — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:05:40 GMT

As @h_eger states, there is no true volume clipping in AutoCAD. However, you can make use of XCLIP (for xreferences) and 3DCLIP (for current model items) to do some limited clipping functions.

Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

Ruffy85 — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:16:50 GMT

https://github.com/Henaccount/Plant3dSimpleClipBox

Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

jabowabo — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:59:22 GMT

This is a neat implementation but not a true clipping box. It uses a combination of XCLIP for xrefs and PLANTISOLATE to turn objects on/off. Drawing resident objects (not xrefs) can only be set as visible or invisible rather than truly clipped. Xrefs do actually get clipped with the XCLIP functionality.

That said, it's a very nice combination of existing commands and could be really useful. Kudos to the developer for thinking outside the box (pun intended 😜).

Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:11:17 GMT

Hi @Ruffy85 ,

Where can I find the dll file?

thanks.

Re: Autocad Plant 3d view clipping

Fahad_YK — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:32:54 GMT

Any update about this? It would be very nice if Plant 3D had a view clipping tool like Navisworks.

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h_eger — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 06:09:32 GMT