Inverse Xref Clipping

Greetings!
A quick query about x-ref clipping. I'm wanting to clip an xref BUT I want the inverse to remain.
So when I make a clipping boundary I want the inside to disappear with the outside to remain. I used a workaround with this years ago with a polyline wrapping back around the outside with a marginally small gap between the returning lines to the outside. But this is slow and tedious drawing such a polyline.
I think I heard that inverse clipping was available now. I'm currently using ver 2007 (because we had h-u-g-e problems with 2008 and 2009 makes the machine chug) Is it possible to do such a clip?
John Mc

Not sure about 2007, in 2008:
XCLIP
select object
New
Invert clip - last option
...blah blah

You're right ... it's only available from 2008 on. There's 2 approaches to do this in earlier versions:

1. Make a copy of the XRef object @0,0. Then XClip one of them with a left-hand "C-like" closed polyline and the other with a right-hand. Basically making the 2 halfs of the surround.
2. Make a convoluted closed polyline around the entire XRef and coming in doing the smaller "hole" before returning out to the bigger "border" close but not exactly on the line coming in.

See attached for a simple example of the polylines in the 2 options.

OK...Thanks for that, Gang

I'm a little new to the 2008 version. Is it possible clip an xref with an inverted clip AND a normal clip? I have an xref file that contains all of a jobsites embedded conduit, several hundred acres in size. I only want to see an area local to where I'm working but I would also like to use an inverted clip to clip out a piece that obstructs the area that I'm working on.

Possible?

i dont think its possible to have two clips

You can do it with some work.

Draw in the clip boundaries you want. Then draw two parallel lines very close to each other. Trim appropriately. XCLIP and Select Polyline as boundary.

See attached.

There's 2 other options:

• Place a wipeout over the internal "hole" you want to cut out; or
• After doing the external xclip, create a block of the clipped xref, then xclip the block with the hole.