topic Re: Edit and Crop a plan in AutoCAD LT Forum

Edit and Crop a plan

sbenarous3V9RY — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:59 GMT

Hi,

I’m new to AutoCAD LT at my company.

The task I have is that I received an architectural plan of a building, and I need to isolate one room and export the plan with dimensions.

The file contains many layers, and the scale is set for the entire building. I have kept the layers I need so far, but now I need to crop the plan to focus only on the room.

I’m stuck at this step, which is why I’m reaching out for help. I need to crop the plan, which involves cutting lines from multiple layers.

Could someone explain the steps to achieve this?

I can provide more details if needed.

Thanks!

Re: Edit and Crop a plan

paullimapa — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:50:14 GMT

If you xref the arch plan into the dwg you’re going to work on then you can use the xclip command to crop out the room you only want to see

Re: Edit and Crop a plan

pendean — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:03:49 GMT

That's what LAYOUTs exit for (and most likely where your company standards titleblocks go): your to-scale viewport can isolate just the room, and if needed, you can export just that layout to a new DWG file to share with others.

May I ask why you don't want to ask at your company about how to do your task?

Re: Edit and Crop a plan

tramber — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:17 GMT

To say it in a very short manner I would :

Make a selection of the area with a right to left rectangle of selection.

I would, then, hit the W letter and ENTER.

It would create a DWG where I want to record it.

I would open it and would do the job of croping there.

It is a way not to forget anything (selection by clicks from right to left and Wbloc of this selection) and not to take all. The base point remain in 0,0 with you don't modify it. Can be hellpfull to insert, copy bakc, xref, etc.....

Re: Edit and Crop a plan

sbenarous3V9RY — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:17:21 GMT

Thanks everyone for your help, i finaly achieve my task after few hours of researchs. I just found a process that allow me to do what i want. The commande "W" lead to WBLOC around a selection. Then, I open the bloc file and trace a rectangle that define my XDELIM. Might be not the best way but still working 🙂 See you

Re: Edit and Crop a plan

tramber — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:51:23 GMT

If you'd red* me before, you would have hit* the letter W on the 21th and marked me as your hero.

Your solution is so closed to mine that I suspect you to be a spy 😀

*risks because I am not confident with irregular verbs as I was when I was a student.

Edit : hitten ? 🤔