Wipeout

Have Used The Wipeout Tool To Erase Part Of An X-ref( Some Text)

On A Drawing, Have Created A Frame Around Area To Be Hidden. Looks Good On Model And Paper Space Exactly What I Require. How Ever When I Come To Plot The Drawing (print Preview) The Part That Is Hidden Is Now Showing, How Can I Plot The Drawing So The Wipeout Stays Hidden?

check draworder (draworder above object)

check to make sure the layer that the wipeout resides on is plottable.

I try and stay away from WIPEOUT. In fact, I have abandoned using this period. Can you not put the text on its own layer and just Freeze the layer?

I try and stay away from WIPEOUT. In fact, I have abandoned using this period. Can you not put the text on its own layer and just Freeze the layer?

likewise, especially since PDF hates them.

just thought i'd offer a helpful - possible - solution.

I have rarely had a problem with using Wipeouts.

But where I have had a problem, I have resorted to using a pline shape with solid hatching in it. The colour of the hatching I have set to be 255,255,255 - as that is as near to white as you can get without it printing out black

Use the Xclip Command to clip out the area you don't want showing. This will hide everything either inside or outside the border you have chosen.

It will hide the xref or block. Any text in model space that is not part of the xref or block will show.

I have rarely had a problem with using Wipeouts.

But where I have had a problem, I have resorted to using a pline shape with solid hatching in it. The colour of the hatching I have set to be 255,255,255 - as that is as near to white as you can get without it printing out black

NBC this is probably the best solution, honestly. Good tip.

If your area you want to be hidden isn't an external reference or a block you can get creative by creating a multiline text and just have void text in there, then go to properties on that text and make a masking for the text set to match the background, and then you go back into the text and erase what text you put in there, but the frame will still remain and you just use the grips to make to the size you want. I have used this to create masked blocks for seciton markers, installation note bubbles ect...