topic Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area? in AutoCAD Forum

how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

jetted4 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:53:23 GMT

We use colors in our Autocad drawings to define different line thicknesses so every color prints black, just different lineweight. Given that, Wipeout is the only way I have to define a white area to cover/mask what is underneath.

Problem is, I am trying to create a white area in the shape of the letter B but I don't know of anyway to subtract the two inner holes in the B-shaped Wipeout from its total area? Any ideas?

Thanks 🙂

Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

pendean — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:23:51 GMT

When a WIPEOUT element dos not work, a 2D SOLID or a solid-pattern HATCH set to RGB color 255,255,255 always works as an excellent substitution, and will have no effect on your so-very-common choice of color/lineweight drafting method.

Try it out: it has been working fine for 30+years for us old timers.

Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

jetted4 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:08:07 GMT

Yay!

Thank you. That worked perfectly. 🙂

Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

ccastelein — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:27:28 GMT

So if i have a rectangle wipeout with a hole in the middle i just have the wipeout edge head toward the hole , wrap around the hole and then overlap the edge that came in to the hole back out to the edge... in other words the frame can overlap itself. hope that helps

Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:36:13 GMT

Or, if it can be acceptable to have very small gaps in the wiping out, make a Wipeout shaped like this:

You could actually make those gaps much smaller -- I made them of noticeable size to illustrate the concept.

EDIT:

Or, @ccastelein 's suggestion:

[That wouldn't have occurred to me, but I rarely have a use for Wipeouts.]

Re: how do you create a hole in a Wipeout area?

jetted4 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:09:03 GMT

Thanks to both @Kent1Cooper and @ccastelein. That looks like it would work also (haven't tried it since @pendean 's suggestion of pure white 255,255,255 color worked, but good to know of the creative wipeout shape as an alternative.

Thanks 🙂