This is really a strange issue that I’m surprised I haven’t seen come up before.
Using select rect with alt held down instead of a clipping brush I’m getting the clip brush I want, the one I think all of us want. It takes away the parts I want with out any weird pushing/pulling artifacts on the side. All I have to do is (after hiding the area)hit the make polymesh 3d button and bam the area isn’t just hidden but it’s the shape I wanted. As in the part that was hidden is now hidden forever and I’m left with the shape exactly as I wanted. Really great for making holes.
The only problem using this method is, I can’t hide something else at the same time. Why doesn’t the clip rect button work this way? Am I missing something?
edit: it even takes the polys away that I hid… pixologic you gotta make all the clip brushes work this way, and make a separate key so we can hide things at the same time. I think I just tapped into something huge here. I can’t think of any good reason why the clip brushes don’t work this way if it’s clearly possible with using hide.