masking/hiding

Hi,
I am currently using 2000, but will be moving to 2007 in a few weeks.

One thing I have always wanted to do, but never found a way to do it is
"mask"
a part of the drawing.

For example:

If I draw a floor plan on layer 1-wall, I would like to mask off a section
of this floor plan
and draw an alternate bath on alt-wall, or even a second floor over the 1st
floor "masked" area.

Ideally, it would mean drawing a pline and telling autocad to "mask" the
layers inside the area.

anyway...does somethign like this exist in newer versions?

I also read an article a very very long time ago that used a 3d object? to
"mask" and area?
I have not been able to find a refrence to that, and do not remember how it
was done.

Thanks all for your help,

Jojo

 

not sure about 2007 but back when I was using r14 I had to do something
similar and I found a 3d face with a positive z value will mask over what u
want, but u have to remember to type 'hide' otherwise you will just see the
outline of the 3dface. Its not ideal, and probably the best way of doing
what you want instead of masking is creating new layers for that area and
turning them off, then draw your new stuff on yet another layer. Then in
paper space in your different viewports your can turn off and on the correct
layers.

 

Hello
For that reason,
i use to make a file per plan,
and work with xref.
You just have to swithch between drawing to work threw plan.
Gérald

 

yes, I've done this, along with layer control, ect, but I'm trying to
simplify the process.

Thanks,
jojo

 

What about just making a Wipeout.

 

I think the command your looking for is: 'wipeout'

This does exactly what you describe.

Aled Taylor
Design Engineer

 

a écrit :

hello,
Not exactly, because wipeout is dependent of the draw order.
I think at use, it will be complicated to reorder the severals wipeout
(on for each "active" layer) to mask the good entities.
I think what he's looking for doesn't exist : a clipping object, not for
block or xref, but for a specified layer.
Gérald

 

was not familiar with this command, but this is perfect! Thanks!

jojo

 

Is there any way to create a lsp routine that will reorder the one wipeout?

Thanks,
jojo

 

why not just freeze the unwanted layers in the viewports through
pspace? different layout tabs.. different layers frozen? simple enough