---
title: ClippingComponent
framework: realitykit
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: realitykit/clippingcomponent
---

# ClippingComponent

A component that clips entities and their children to a customizable bounding box volume with feathered edges.

## Declaration

```swift
struct ClippingComponent
```

## Overview

Overview The ClippingComponent provides a powerful and performant way to clip content in RealityKit. It’s particularly useful for: Creating soft-edge effects with feathered boundaries instead of hard cuts Creating polished spatial experiences with hierarchical clipping control Add a ClippingComponent to an entity by passing it to an entity’s Entity/ComponentSet/set() method. let windowEntity = Entity()

let bounds = BoundingBox(min: SIMD3<Float>(-10, -10, -10), max: SIMD3<Float>(10, 10, 10)) var clipping = ClippingComponent(bounds: bounds) clipping.featheredEdge.falloff = .linear clipping.featheredEdge.positiveEdgeInset = [2, 2, 0.0]  // 2-unit feather zone on +X & +Y edges clipping.featheredEdge.negativeEdgeInset = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]  // no feathering on negative edges clipping.shouldClipSelf = true clipping.shouldClipChildren = true

windowEntity.components.set(clipping)

## Topics

### Creating a clipping component

- [init(bounds:)](realitykit/clippingcomponent/init(bounds:).md)

### Configuring clipping behavior

- [shouldClipChildren](realitykit/clippingcomponent/shouldclipchildren.md)
- [shouldClipSelf](realitykit/clippingcomponent/shouldclipself.md)

### Feathering clipped edges

- [featheredEdge](realitykit/clippingcomponent/featherededge-swift.property.md)
- [ClippingComponent.FeatheredEdge](realitykit/clippingcomponent/featherededge-swift.struct.md)

### Instance Properties

- [bounds](realitykit/clippingcomponent/bounds.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Component](realitykit/component.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)

## See Also

### Portals, clipping, and occlusion

- [RenderLayerComponent](realitykit/renderlayercomponent.md)
- [RenderLayer](realitykit/renderlayer.md)
- [PortalFactory](realitykit/portalfactory.md)
- [ClippingPrimitiveComponent](realitykit/clippingprimitivecomponent.md)
- [OcclusionCullingComponent](realitykit/occlusioncullingcomponent.md)