Ensight
INTRODUCTION
Unlike standard Z clipping where the front and back planes are always perpendicular to your line of sight, auxiliary
clipping lets you clip parts against a plane with arbitrary position and orientation. In addition, the auxiliary clip
attribute can be set on a per-part basis. This permits selective clipping to reveal objects of interest.
EnSight’s Plane Tool is used to provide the location for auxiliary clips. As the Plane Tool is manipulated (either
interactively with the mouse or via the Transformations dialog), the display in the Graphics Window updates to reflect
the new location of the plane.
BASIC OPERATION
The Plane Tool will become visible and all objects on the negative Z side of the plane will be clipped (assuming the
plane currently intersects some visible part). You can now manipulate the Plane Tool to achieve the desired display
effect (see How To Use the Plane Tool for details). Note that Auxiliary Clipping always uses the infinite extent of the
plane specified by the Plane Tool – there is no way to restrict it to the rectangular bounds of the tool.
Each part has an attribute that controls whether it is clipped by the Auxiliary Clipping plane or not. To toggle this
setting:
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