wipeouts & curves

[.chad]

is there anyway to get a wipeout to play nice with a curved line, or even another solution? right now the dialog states that it requires a closed polyline made only of line segments - meaning no curves.

[Steve_Bennett]

Nope. I experimented with this a while back to see if we could use them for detail bubbles. We had to make very short segments along the curve to to simulate a circle. It worked. Just took patience and the nearest osnap on...

[gdaniels]

Can you not draw a polyline and containing arcs and convert it into a mask block instead?

Just a thought not really tried it out.

Cheers,

[.chad]

Can you not draw a polyline and containing arcs and convert it into a mask block instead?

Just a thought not really tried it out.

Cheers,

hm. never tried. not even sure i know how. ill look into that later. thanks

[.chad]

Can you not draw a polyline and containing arcs and convert it into a mask block instead?

Just a thought not really tried it out.

Cheers,

mask blocks only mask out aec objects which im sure has some great applications, but at the moment i am dealing with linework. they are a lot easier to work with than wipeouts from the little bit of experimenting ive done.

[.chad]

i did discover today while tinkering with this that an AEC Polygon set to masking functions just like a wipeout and the segments can be curved. this is the polygon that makes the AEC Cut Line work the way it does. might be a better way to make masking features than wipeouts.

[chucknamyw]

We've been making multiple wipeouts, and the solution we found is to use a polygon set to many (50 to 100) for an arc. It comes in as one piece, can be trimmed, and works great for a wipeout.