clipper command

[deft04]

Im having trouble figuring out the clipper command. I have a square box and at one corner I want to cut the corner off and make it flat like this:

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[deft04]

woops, that didnt turn out right...basically the corner is cut off at an angle.

[Davros]

select your brush and while holding down ctrl, right mouse click to specify where you want to clip the brush. your brush should now be two seperate colours, red and yellow. you can switch between colours using ctrl + enter

to finish the clipping hit enter. the red piece should be sliced off leaving the yellow portion.

[Wils]

When you use the clipping tool you're essentially dropping the start and end points of a line which will be used to slice (or clip) any selected brush geometry it intersects.

The clipper tool creates this line (or a plane, if you're doing three point clipping) with a specific orientation. The part outlined in yellow that gets saved when you press enter is always on the "right" of the line as it travels from the first clip point to the second. You can flip the orientation and make it save the part on the left of the line by pressing ctrl + enter. Pressing ctrl + enter again will flip it back to the default orientation.

Additionally, if you hit shift + enter instead of just enter, the clipping tool will split the brush instead of cutting off and deleting the part you have selected in red.