It's definitely the large clipping cube that's causing me problems. Even the simplest parts are having issues when I rotate them in preview mode. I thought it was something I was doing wrong in the set of 14 files used to generate the assembly. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:08 PM Leonard Martin Struttmann < lenstruttmann@gmail.com> wrote: > I am new to OpenSCAD and I am finding that I, also, use the Big Cube > method for clipping. > > Is there a way to get the maximum dimensions (preferably in all six > directions from center) of an assembly? This would help in quickly > creating a reasonably sized cube for clipping. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Jordan Brown < > openscad@jordan.maileater.net> wrote: > >> On 3/22/2021 12:08 PM, david vanhorn wrote: >> >> Ok, I am using a big cube for clipping. Kinda unavoidable. >> I have long wished for clipping planes as implemented in PovRay. No >> dimensioning necessary, everything on one side of the plane is gone, the >> rest stays. >> >> >> Yes. I have no idea whether the underlying tools (CGAL, OpenCSG) are >> friendly to that notion. It'd kind of have to be a primitive, since there >> are no infinite-size constructs in the language today. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org > -- K1FZY (WA4TPW) SK 9/29/37-4/13/15

On 3/22/2021 7:08 PM, Leonard Martin Struttmann wrote: > Is there a way to get the maximum dimensions (preferably in all six > directions from center) of an assembly? No.  There is no way to get any information about the object you have created.