How to crop a picture to fit a specific shape in AutoCAD LT

[harveyXRS9Z]

Hello,

How do I crop a picture to fit a specific shape in AutoCAD LT?  I'm working on AutoCAD LT 2022.

Attached is a screenshot of what I'm working with.  The shape is a table top and I want to crop the marble picture to fit to the shape so it looks like a marble table top.

Thanks.

[pendean]

CLIP command is explained in HELP.

[harveyXRS9Z]

Thanks for your reply.

I'm afraid I'm fairly new to this and not seeing anything obvious in HELP.

In particular I'm struggling to fit to a curved shape.  I have managed to clip to a rectangle, but on my screenshot, you will see that the two long edges are curved.

Are you able to point me in the direction of a particular command?

Thanks

[harveyXRS9Z]

I have since found a way to do it, although I'm not sure if it is correct.

As far as I can make out you can't clip to a shape/polyline that contains an arc/circle.

So I created the 'same' shape in my screenshot, but with the curved lines made with the POLYGON command, as a 1024 sided 'circle', which I then trimmed down to the 'arc' length I needed.

I then turned this new shape into a polyline and I was able to use CLIP command.

Is this the only way to 'fill' a shape with an image, where the shape has curved sides?

Thanks

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, clip won't work with curved elements. You would need to recreate the curved parts using multiple short straight sections, try the polygon command with a high number of sides then trim out just the section you need for the table edges.

EDIT: oops whilst I was looking I see you found the answer yourself.

Yes this is the only method

[harveyXRS9Z]

Thanks for confirming.

[harveyXRS9Z]

Further to the above,  I'm now wanting to create a 'cut-out'  within my 'clipped' picture (for example a sink cut-out in my table top).  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

[h_s_walker · Accepted solution]

Use a WIPEOUT or a SOLID hatch with a TRUE COLOUR setting of 255,255,255

[harveyXRS9Z]

Thanks