Footprints covering what´s behind them

[Anonymous]

Hello, i have drawn some footprints of my own, but i don´t know how to get them to cover up what´s behind them (i.e. the din rail). Footprints from the ACE library do, but unfotunately not all of my compoments are in it.
Suggestions anyone?
Thank you very much.

Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Anonymous]

Try using the AutoCAD "Wipeout" command. You may also need to use the
Draworder commands to control visibility.

--
Sam Hochberg
Inventor Certified Expert
Not too bad at AutoCAD either



wrote in message news:4994096@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello, i have drawn some footprints of my own, but i don´t know how to get
them to cover up what´s behind them (i.e. the din rail). Footprints from the
ACE library do, but unfotunately not all of my compoments are in it.
Suggestions anyone?
Thank you very much.

Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Anonymous]

Thank you SO much!
You didn´t get that "Certified Expert" for nothing, eh?

Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Anonymous]

Sam is exactly right. Many of the stock panel layout physical symbols,
especially the terminal representations, have a WIPEOUT region entity added
right into the library symbol. Try adding this entity to each of your custom
library symbols. You may have to experiment a bit as Sam noted.

wrote in message news:4994096@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello, i have drawn some footprints of my own, but i don´t know how to get
them to cover up what´s behind them (i.e. the din rail). Footprints from the
ACE library do, but unfotunately not all of my compoments are in it.
Suggestions anyone?
Thank you very much.

Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Anonymous]

Yes, i did that and it worked like a charm.
Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if anyone has encountered this but, if the symbol has a wipeout
region and you print your drawing to "pdf", do you they show up as
blacked-out regions?
I've had to go in a remove these wipeouts so my drawing doesn't look like it
was censored....

Anyone have a workaround or tweak for printing?
Omar

wrote in message news:4994096@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello, i have drawn some footprints of my own, but i don´t know how to get
them to cover up what´s behind them (i.e. the din rail). Footprints from the
ACE library do, but unfotunately not all of my compoments are in it.
Suggestions anyone?
Thank you very much.

Saludos.
Alejandro.

[Anonymous]

Omar, i ran into this just today.
I think it has to do with DRAWORDER. Make sure the wipeout covers only what you need it to. And if it doesn´t work at first, mess around untill you get it right. I did.

Saludos
Alejandro.

[jmburge]

I am having a problem that may or may not be related to draworder. I have a drawing with terminal footprints in model space and the title block in paper space so when I plot the drawing (in paper space), the wire numbers get mixed in with the rest of the geometry in the terminal that is supposed to be covered with the wipeout region. Anyone experiencing this?

[Anonymous]

Try to edit your library symbol terminal block ZDU2_5-2-3AN and move the
wire number attribute to the left or right side of the geometry. This way
the wipeout region won't hide the wire number. Use the Swap/Update block
function to refresh your terminal blocks.

wrote in message news:5044868@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am having a problem that may or may not be related to draworder. I have a
drawing with terminal footprints in model space and the title block in paper
space so when I plot the drawing (in paper space), the wire numbers get
mixed in with the rest of the geometry in the terminal that is supposed to
be covered with the wipeout region. Anyone experiencing this?

[jmburge]

Omar,
My goal was to have the wire number on the terminal and have the wipeout region only cover the inner terminal geometry. I can get it to appear the way I want in the model, but when I plot it does not turn out that way.

[jmburge]

Sorry...I should have included my example that actually shows what I'm talking about.