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Clipplanes in instant3Dhub are virtual planes used to cut through or section a geometry, allowing users to view and interact with internal parts of the geometry that would otherwise be hidden. Clipplanes are powerful tools for visualization and analysis of complex 3D structures. Multiple clipplanes can be present simultaneously. Clipplanes can be added out-of-the-box using the ClipPlaneAPI.

Key Aspects:

  • Appearance: Visibility and transparency of clipplanes can be configured.

  • Dynamic Clipping: instant3Dhub offers a flexible dynamic clipplane that enables you to selectively hide or reveal portions of the scene by placing a virtual clipping plane in front of the camera at a fixed distance.

  • Capping: Adds a solid surface to the cutting area of a clipplane by filling hollow spaces inside of parts. This makes it easier to distinguish between solid parts and true hollow spaces.

  • Other Properties: Position, Normal, Distance, Transform and more ClipPlaneProperties

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Clipping rooms or clipping volumes are defined by a combination of six planes. As for clipping planes, they can be derived from nodes of the InstanceGraph interactively, for example using the volume of a node.

webvis API Reference

ClipPlaneAPI

A detailed example on the usage of the included UI component can be found here.