Plugin CutPlane

• General
• Description
• Use
• History

General

After downloading the plugin , simple copy the file CutPlane.hxt into the HXT directory your A:M installation .
The plugin was originally designed as a working relief for me , and therefor raises far no claim to completness or accuracy, however it is freeware .

Description

Use

Plane is infinite	if this checkbox is checked a infinite plane is used , otherwise only the plane that you see is the cuttingplane, means if you move the plane partly outside the model, only the splines are cuttet , they are inside the plane area
Add splinering	if this checkbox is checked a new spline spline is createt and attached at the cuttingpoints, otherwise only on the existing splines cp's are insertet Add splinering unchecked Add splinering checked
Break mode	only avaible if "Add splinering" is checked break the splines above the newly insertet points (alway in the direction of the plane normal)
Cut mode	only avaible if "Add splinering" is checked break the splines between the newly insertet points (alway in the direction of the plane normal) for a better view , the top group is moved (the insertet points are on the same position for both createt splinerings)
Offset (Button)	only avaible, if you are in the "Cut" mode If you hit this button another dialog occurs , where you can input a value for moving the cuttet part of the model (it does NOT affect existing bones, only cp's) If you let the offset at 0 , nothing is moved , but the model is cuttet (select any cp -> Shift-/ -> now you can move a piece of the model) the part of the model , which is in the direction from the normal for the cutplane , will be moved the value which you put in here, in the direction (!!) from the normal for the cutplane this extra dialog is needed, because the maindialog for this plugin is a modeless dialog, a modeless dialog get not the the keyboardevents ,which is assigned in A:M to other events as example numerical "0" switching the view to shaded ,the (modeless) maindialog never get this keyboardevent, one of the problems , when a plugin uses modeless dialogs, the extra modal dialog for input the offset setting is a workaround for this problem
Update	Let you view , where the plugin will cut the splines
Apply	perform the selectet cutting operation

Index

History

• Version 0.1
  • Initialrelease
• Version 0.2
  • ordering cp's for the splinering fixed , if the plane is rotatet 90 or 270 degrees around the x or z axis
  • offset for cut mode added
• Version 0.3
  • ordering cp's for the splinering fixed , when the model is not centered at 0,0,0 in the modelingwindow
• Version 0.3a
  • fixed problem with v14 (dialog twice createt)
• Version 0.5
  • multiple Apply's possible (needs V13t or higher)
• Version 0.5a
  • bug removed, when infinite plane is checked the plugin crashes A:M