Topic: Inverted Wipeout?

[MSTG007]

Is there away to do an inverted wipeout? I know you can do an XCLIP with a block or xref, but what do you do when you do not want it to be a block and in model space you want show a certain area?

[Rob...]

What?

Can you illustrate?

[MSTG007]

Sure,
I had an idea, for sheet setup. Typically when we setup sheets we xref a base file into a sheet file. Then go through paperspace and pick a scale, However based up on the shape of the base it can sometimes be hard to center up. (Again, this is just an idea). So the idea is to go into the base, Draw a rectangle that is the size of your viewport. Center it up on the piece you want to see.(this is where the masking comes into play). Save a file, attach the base to the sheet file, then adjust the viewport scale to (what your rectangle shape is), and then the viewport will auto center to a scale.

So if you doing ALOT Of sheets with the same viewport, this helps out.

I know there a million ways to do things, but I was curious about this way.

Thanks

[Matt__W]

So you want to wipeout everything outside of the limits?

[Matt__W]

Sure,
I had an idea, for sheet setup. Typically when we setup sheets we xref a base file into a sheet file. Then go through paperspace and pick a scale, However based up on the shape of the base it can sometimes be hard to center up. (Again, this is just an idea). So the idea is to go into the base, Draw a rectangle that is the size of your viewport. Center it up on the piece you want to see.(this is where the masking comes into play). Save a file, attach the base to the sheet file, then adjust the viewport scale to (what your rectangle shape is), and then the viewport will auto center to a scale.

So if you doing ALOT Of sheets with the same viewport, this helps out.

I know there a million ways to do things, but I was curious about this way.

Thanks

So why not just xclip?

[MSTG007]

No you are right about that, but the XCLIP is for blocks and xrefs, this is not a xref or a block inside this base. its normal entities. You can still offset, change layers, close save etc.

[Rob...]

If you know the center point (or close to it), you can use zoom center and then set the scale. It's even snap-able.

[MSTG007]

You are right. I playing around with the bottom right cannoscale "Scale of selected viewport". Or the awesome scale 1/#XP. lol.