Hopefully in future versions of AutoCAD this will be solved. We talked about how useful inverted XCLIPS can be on a previous post. The only bad part of this express tool, is that so far (till version 2009) it doesn't allow inverted clips. If you switch on the XCLIPFRAME and select the block, you will see that the frame is actually made of straight lines. What CLIPIT does, is turn the curved clipping frame into a set of segments.
With CLIPIT you first select the frame and then the Block, Image, Wipeout or XREF you want to clip. It works the opposite as the XCLIP command. CLIPIT will ask us to select the new clipping frame, that can actually be a POLYLINE, CIRCLE, ARC, ELLIPSE, or TEXT object. The work around is to use an Express Tool Command.ĬLIPIT is an express tool command that will allow us to do what we wanted to do. As you see we need a work around this result. The first image shows the original block, the second one is the block clipped with the XCLIP command. The block was clipped using the yellow polyline. If you try to clip a block using a polyline that contains curved segments you will see that along the curved segment the clipping is not done properly. The same way we can't use circles to clip Blocks or XREFs. Clip your Blocks or XREFs using curved polylines, circles, etcĪ common problem found when using the XCLIP command is that it doesn't clip properly if the polyline we use has curved segments.
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