Opengl Selective glClipPlane

Question

I have a scene drawn in openGL (openGl 1.1 win32).

I use glClipPlane to hide foreground objects to allow the user to see/edit distance parts. The selection is done natively without using openGL.

But the glClipPlane applies to all openGL elements - coordinate icons, gridlines etc and even elements drawn in gluOrtho2D on top - scale bars, selection boxes etc.

Is there anyway to selective override the clipplanes to allow these elements to be drawn while clipping the main scene?

Answer 1

Isn't surrounding only the objects you want to hide with glEnable(GL_CLIP_PLANE); and glDisable(GL_CLIP_PLANE); enough?