I am using Autocad Electrical 2011, i got a new computer a couple of months ago, and now i notice my wipeouts on my blocks no longer work. On my screen as well as when i plot. Is there a setting that needs to be changed to enable wipeouts?
Thanks
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Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
After posting, I thought of a couple other questions to ask.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Can you place a NEW wipeout (not in a block) and see what happens?
If you turn on Wipeout frames (WIPEOUT>Frames>On), do you see the wipeout boundaries?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
@gcsjlewis wrote:
The wipeouts are saved within the block on its own wipeout layer. My co-worker does not have an issue with the blocks that I have. And the blocks are something that we have used for years now, and I never had a problem until I got the new computer. If I go to draworder and either send it to the back or to the front, nothing happens. You can still see the components behind it. Every once in a while if I change from model to layout back to model it will work do what is supposed to do, but if I start modifying my drawing in model space the wipeout no longer works again. Thanks for your response
You didn't answer my questions (in my 2nd reply).
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
@gcsjlewis wrote:
I didn't get a second email from you.
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2010-2011-2012/wipeouts-no-longer-work/m-p/5190725#M114516
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Actually, looking at your posts, when I put in a new wipeout around a component and brought the block to the front, my wipeouts for all blocks work the way it was supposed to. I saved the drawing, closed out and went back in and it is still working. It’s weird that I would have to do that. I will also have my co-worker sign on and try to use these blocks to see if he still has the same issue I have.
Questions asked:
-The wipeouts do not work no matter sending things to the front or to the back.
-The wipeouts are elements within the block
-the wipeout layer is on and un-frozen
-The wipeouts are in the block before the new machine.
-It happens with all the blocks in our library.
-My co-worker doesn’t have this issue, and he got a new computer the same time I did.
-**I will verify if he logs into my computer if it still has the same issue.
On a side note, is there a line within the environment file that sets the standard wipeout layer? I seem to recall that with my old computer it was automatically put on my layer “wipeout” but when I went to put a new wipeout on, it wasn’t defaulting to that layer? So I had to type into the command line clayer/wipeout.
Regarding the side note question, that sounds like the old machine was autolaoding a routine (probably VBA lsp) that included code that recognized the Wipeout command had been activated and then set the layer accordingly.
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Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
manamalewis wrote:
-The wipeouts are in the block before the new machine.
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I was asking about the file itself. Did it exist WITH THE BLOCKS PLACED before the new PC? If so, were they displaying properly before the new PC and now they're not?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician