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Clipping Planes Editor

Clipping Plane Editor is available on Current Object > Clipping Planes menu command. The dialog displays position of the clipping plane. When "Show" check box is on, the clipping plane is drawn in 3D view as a transparent disc. Its normal points into the positive semi space. 

Direction edit boxes are little unusual. When Apply button is pressed  the vector represented by x, y, z numbers is normalized (extended or shortened) so that its length is equal to 1.0 and all three numbers are replaced with its coordinates.

When "Angles" radio button is on the direction vector is represented by its angles with correspondent axis of the local frame. In this case coordinates can be modified with slider after setting focus into an edit box. Modifications with the slider are convenient because the modifications are applied automatically with immediate updates of the 3D view.

Current plane edit box allow switching between 6 clipping planes which can be enabled for the current object.

To share the current clipping plane turn on "Share clip plane" check box in Sharing Clip Plane dialog. In this case the current plane becomes global, so that it will not move with the current object and it can be used by other objects.

To use an existing shared clipping plane (See Clipping Planes.) copy Plane ID from the Sharing Clip Plane dialog, close the dialog and the clip editor, switch the current object to the object which will be using the plane. Turn on correspondent "Share clip plane" check box and press Use Shared button, which is enabled when there is another shared clipping plane. Paste the Plane ID in the appeared edit box and press OK. Note: if there is  only one another clipping plane to share, its ID will be entered automatically and no edit box will appear. Press OK to close the Sharing Clip Plane dialog. When the current plane is shared it clips all objects which share it. This can be verified by turning "Enabled" check box on.

See also Clipping Planes.