More About the Back-Clipping Plane

There are a few things that you need to know when clipping the 2D and 3D backgrounds of layout views using a back-clipping plane.

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Using the Back-Clipping Plane
About Printing a Layout
Generating Drawings from a Layout

  • You can activate or deactivate the back-clipping plane for one or several views, by right-clicking the view(s), selecting Properties then the Visualization tab, and selecting/clearing the Activate back-clipping plane check box. Then click OK. Note: When the selected views do not all have the same status (back-clipping plane activated or deactivated for all views), the check box is grayed out.
  • When a view is rotated, its clipping frame is rotated using the same angle.
  • When the scale of a view is modified, the position and size of its clipping frame is scaled as well.
  • The back-clipping plane can also be activated by default for each newly created view. Refer to View Creation > Clipping in the Customizing chapter for more information.
  • The back-clipping plane is taken into account:
    • when printing in raster mode: all background elements that are behind it are not printed.
    • when creating a drawing view: all background elements that are behind it are not generated. Note that the boundary of back-clipped elements is displayed using a specific, un-customizable, line type. Also note that the back-clipping plane is not associative: if you activate/deactivate it, or modify its position after the drawing has been generated, you will need to update the drawing (even if it appears as being up-to-date) in order for your modifications to be taken into account.