Rhinoceros

[via: rhino newsletter]

The latest version of Sectiontools Plugin for Rhino 5.o wip is realeased with some improvements.

What’s new:

• Added new command “stEditSections” to edit sectioning options such as solid mode, direction and attributes. stEditSectionHatch and stSectionDir are now part of the new command.
• Combined “stView”, “stSetCPlaneToSection” and “stSetViewToSection” into one new command “stViewSections”. You can now “Clip”, “SetView” and “SetCPlane” all in one step.
• Added support for persistent options to stCreate, stCreateArray and stViewSections commands.
• Fixed a bug when flipping section direction.
• 2D Layout now outputs curves, solids and hatched to 3 different sub-layers. This will help assign different layer attributes to each one.
• Made it more reliable to view section curves, surfaces and hatches.
• Fixed CPlane alignment bug.
• Added a new item to “SolidMode” option in stCreate and stCreateArray commands. It allows adding both hatches and surfaces at the same time.
• Added enhancements to stMoveSections command. Dragging sections’ now gives real-time feedback of intersections and section clipping plane location.
• When creating sections, selecting objects is now a separate step from options. This way it will be possible to preselect objects and change options.
• Fixed duplicate polycurves in 2D layouts bug.
• Enhanced reporting output
• Fixed a crash bug when saving as V4 then open in V5.
• Many other minor bug fixes.
• Added nine new short clips and updated toolbars and help manual.

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