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Chopper_Scott
15th Mar 2006, 11:42 am
I'm using autocad 2005.

I've been messing around with different ways to create faces and created a 3D face using solely invisible lines (a phantom). How can I select this face if I want to modify/delete it. I can see it if flat or gouraud shading is on but it won't let me select it.

Cheers
Scotty

CADTutor
15th Mar 2006, 12:09 pm
You can force invisible 3D Face edges to display in wireline using the SPLFRAME variable. If SPLFRAME = 0 all invisible edges remain hidden. If it is set to 1 invisible edges will be displayed. This can be extremely useful because it is impossible to select a 3D Face which has no visible edges. The only way to select such a 3D Face is to set SPLFRAME to 1 first.

Chopper_Scott
15th Mar 2006, 09:31 pm
That worked a treat!!

I didn't know that Splframe even existed.

Thanks!