HOOPS supports a variety of approaches to avoid specific portions of your model from interacting with HPS Cutting Sections (3DFCutting Planes).
HPS MFC Sandbox
Instructions
Local Cutting Sections
In this approach, the scope of the cutting section is local
HPS → SetCuttingLevel
3DF → Set_Rendering_Options
The cutting section is applied to geometry in the segment and subsegments where it is defined
The cutting section is ignored by other parts of the segment hierarchy
Cutting Sections Visibility
In this approach, the visibility is used to effectively turn off a cutting section for portions of the scene graph
As with other attributes, inheritance rules apply
Consider an example (shown in the scene above) where there are three different models (i.e. red, green and blue spheres). Setting the visibility of the cutting sections to false, prevents application of the cutting plane. The following sample code illustrates how this works;
void CHPSView::OnUserCode1()
{
HPS::SegmentKey modelSegKey = GetCanvas().GetFrontView().GetAttachedModel().GetSegmentKey();
modelSegKey.InsertCuttingSection(HPS::Plane(0, 0, 1, 0));
HPS::SphereKit sphereKit;
sphereKit.SetCenter(Point(-2, 0, 0));
sphereKit.SetRadius(0.5f);
sphereKit.SetBasis(Vector(0.25, 0.25, 1), Vector(1, 0, 0));
HPS::SegmentKey modelASegKey = modelSegKey.Subsegment("model A");
modelASegKey.InsertSphere(sphereKit);
modelASegKey.GetMaterialMappingControl().SetFaceColor(RGBAColor(1, 0, 0));
sphereKit.SetCenter(Point(0, 0, 0));
HPS::SegmentKey modelBSegKey = modelSegKey.Subsegment("model B");
modelBSegKey.InsertSphere(sphereKit);
modelBSegKey.GetMaterialMappingControl().SetFaceColor(RGBAColor(0, 1, 0));
// Avoid cutting section
modelBSegKey.GetVisibilityControl().SetCuttingSections(false);
sphereKit.SetCenter(Point(2, 0, 0));
HPS::SegmentKey modelCSegKey = modelSegKey.Subsegment("model C");
modelCSegKey.InsertSphere(sphereKit);
modelCSegKey.GetMaterialMappingControl().SetFaceColor(RGBAColor(0, 0, 1));
}