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Clipping


Clipping planes allow to create cross-section views of presentations.

Salome features two distinct types of clipping planes: Global and Local.

To define Global Clipping Planes in the Main Menu select View -> Windows -> Clipping Planes.

The following dialog will appear as a dockable window.

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The list of Presentations allows choosing for display from all presentations currently created or loaded in the study. The list of Associated planes contains all global planes created by the user.

New and Edit buttons call the dialog for creation and modification of clipping planes.

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Delete button removes the selected plane from the list of planes.

Show planes preview checkbox displays active planes in the Viewer. Deactivate planes checkbox - if checked, unchecks Active checkboxes for all planes, revealing the entire presentation. Auto Apply checkbox - automatically hides from view the part of object truncated by the newly created plane.

Note that the clipping planes defined in this way depend on the whole MED object and are stored in the dedicated Object Browser folder.

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The described functionality allows to create both local and global clipping planes, however, there is another way to create local clipping planes, depending on the presentations.

To create a local clipping plane on a presentation, select the presentation in the viewer or in the Object Browser, right-click on it and select Clipping plane from the context menu.

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Click on the New button. A new clipping plane will be immediately displayed in 3D Viewer. You can create as many clipping planes as you need. To delete an unwanted plane, select it in the list of planes and click Delete button.

Now you can define the parameters of your cross-section. You can define them either in Non Structured or in IJK (Structured) way.

Non Structured mode allows to select the clipping plane by adjusting the following parameters:


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In the IJK (Structured) mode the clipping plane will be oriented completely perpendicular to one of the selectable Axes.


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