Topic: Add wipeouts to existing blocks

[Joe Burke]

All,

Something I've been working on which may be interesting/useful.

The primary routine is BlockWipeouts v1.lsp. The ObjMatrix and TraceObject functions must be loaded for it to work. The function TraceJoin is optional.

There's an example file included, which I hope demonstrates how it works and what the options are.

See the header comments in the other .lsp files for details about what they do.

This is intended for 2004 or later where wipeouts are native objects. The example file is 2004 format.

Thanks to Gile for the MakeWipeout function and others as noted.

Suggestions for improvements welcome.

[Murphy]

Word of caution:

When doing PDFs, the wipeouts are filled in with black. Anythng contained within cannot be seen.
This is an issue with Autocad 2006 and Adobe 7 or higher.

[SPDCad]

Word of caution:

When doing PDFs, the wipeouts are filled in with black. Anythng contained within cannot be seen.
This is an issue with Autocad 2006 and Adobe 7 or higher.

Try changing the pen color of the 'wipeout' to have a screening of 1% and to move all items you want shown above the wipeout.
I don't seem to have any problems with my wipeouts printing to PDF and I have been using wipeouts from 2004 thru to 2007.
It maybe the PDF writer software that is a fault not the wipeouts.

[Glenn R]

Just set the colour of the wipeout to 255 and be done with it.

[Crank]

Just set the colour of the wipeout to 255 and be done with it.

That only works if your .pc3 file has a screening of 0% for that colour. At our office color 255 has a screening of 15%, so that will not work.