Inserting Electrical Blocks - Break the line or wipeout?

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

I work in the electrical design field and I am creating new blocks for the company I work for.

Whatever standard I create, will be the standard. These will all be brand new blocks.

My query is, when developing blocks to be inserted onto lines, which would be a better method:

1) Create a wipeout in the block, so it automatically hides the line behind it.

2) Utilize a LISP routine to automatically "break" the line when inserting a block.

or

3) Do nothing at all, manually break the lines.

Has anyone seen an advantage with one over the other?

Thanks in advance

[Libbya]

If there is not other linework/text that must not be hidden, I would opt for the wipeout.  If there is, then I would trim whatever lines need to go away.  You could make the blocks have a non-plotting boundary within them to make accurate trimming easy.  

[MMcCall402 · Accepted solution]

After the trimming the block and trimmed linework could be moved along the line with the Stretch command.

I see there is a Trim command and a BTrim command.  I'm not quite sure what the difference is other than the BTrim copies linework out of the block to use for trimming and then leaves it behind.

[Anonymous]

Thank you both for your replies