Glossary
Clipping planes let you exclude some of a scene's geometry to view only certain portions of the scene. Each camera and viewport has a near and a far clipping plane. Objects closer than the near clipping plane or farther than the far clipping plane are invisible.
Clipping planes are useful for viewing selected portions of a scene that have a lot of complex geometry.
Clipping plane settings are part of the camera's creation parameters. The location of each clipping plane is measured along the camera's line of sight (its local Z axis) in the current units for the scene.