Clicking and dragging one of the gizmo axes leads to translation along that hovered-upon axis, while right-clicking and dragging makes it possible to translate the gizmo on the plane derived from the hovered-upon axis - this option is useful when you quickly want to move the gizmo out of the way for a bit. When dragging the gizmo, rotations are performed around the directions of the main x-, y- and z-axes (the center of rotation is the position of the gizmo), while the translation is done along the gizmo’s own axes ( x g, y g, z g). 0 degrees means that the rotation is continuous without snapping. You can use a snap angle between 0 and 180 degrees. Open the Preferences dialog box, and on the Graphics Interaction page, enter a value, in degrees, in the Snap angle field (default value: 5 degrees). The steps for the rotation are determined by a preference setting. The gizmo also displays dynamic measurement and coordinate values. Double-click it to move to the corresponding node in the Model Builder to view the settings for the corresponding clipping tool. By clicking and moving the gizmo you can move and rotate the clipping tool. You can cancel any interactive clipping operation by pressing the Escape (Esc) key.Ĭlick Show Gizmos ( ) to activate or turn off the displays of the gizmos that help you to control the clipping tools. Several clipping features can be combined and the clipping of each can be inverted to achieve a desired hiding of parts of the 3D geometry. Each clip feature is visualized by a frame depicting its geometric shape and a gizmo that lets you interactively position and orientate the clip feature inside of the Graphics window.

See the sections below for information about the settings for Clip Plane, Clip Box, Clip Sphere, and Clip Cylinder, which you can add from the Graphics toolbar or by right-clicking a 3D View node. Some settings are also available in the View (3D) node’s Settings window. These tools are interactive in the Graphics window for 3D models, where you can activate and control the clipping from the Graphics toolbar and directly in the window. The Clip tool allows you to interactively clip volumetric image data, regions of interest, multi-ROIs, meshes and other unstructured grids along orthogonal planes in 3D views. You can use clipping to swiftly hide parts of the geometry that are in the way to, for example, making it easier to do boundary selections inside of complex 3D geometries. The clipping tools are tools in the Graphics window that can be used to look inside of objects in 3D model geometries, in all modeling modes: geometry, physics and materials, mesh, and for result plots.

A clip box