Clipping planes

[Mike Voss]

Don,
I was just playing around with the clipping. I agree that it would be more 
functional to clip all sides for just the reason you mentioned. In fact I 
was getting a little annoyed that it wasn't clipping the top and bottom 
when I was looking at some layers. However, after playing around with this 
some more I see that occasionally one might want to clip just the 
sides......hmmm. Would it be possible to set the clip to all sides as you 
mentioned as a default, but then have a toggle switch to only clip sides 
when desired? If I had to choose one or the other, I would set it up how 
you mentioned...clip all sides.

Cheers,
-Mike

At 10:01 AM 4/15/2005, Don Murray wrote:
>Hi All-
>
>We have had a request to change the clipping strategy in the
>IDV box which I'd like your feedback on.
>
>Currently, when you select the View->Clip View At Box menu, the top
>and bottom planes are not clipped.  When we first added clipping
>to the IDV, we clipped on all planes of the box.  However, we
>ran into the problem that the probe points at the top of the box
>were getting clipped as well.
>
>I'm inclined to go back to the mode that clipping at the box
>means clipping on all sides which is more consistent.  If we
>did this, would that impact the way you use the IDV currently?
>
>Clipping on all sides would allow you to show just a small slab
>of a 3D dataset (e.g., only data between 5000 and 7000 meters).
>You can always turn off clipping and show all data.
>
>Let us know what you think.
>
>Don Murray
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