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Use the XCLIP command to clip the display of an external reference, and use NCOPY to copy an object from an xref into the current drawing.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
4 min.
Transcript
00:04
The X click command can be used to clip out a portion of an X
00:07
ref if that portion is not needed to be shown,
00:11
it prevents extraneous information from cluttering the drawing.
00:16
Here's an example of a civil drawing with an X
00:19
ref of the site plan, including the design contours and existing site contours.
00:25
In some projects,
00:27
the existing contours will be faded back and
00:29
may be visible in the improvement areas.
00:32
If this is the case and you don't want to see the contours in the improvement areas,
00:38
you can remove the existing contours from the
00:40
improvement areas by using the X clip command
00:45
type in
00:46
X clip to get started.
00:48
When prompted to select objects,
00:50
select the external reference that you want to clip,
00:54
then
00:55
choose new boundary,
00:57
select
00:58
invert clip as what we wanna do is clip out the inside
01:04
of the improvement areas.
01:06
And now we'll choose polygonal so that we can pick the points
01:11
that we want.
01:12
So I'll trace
01:14
the outside of where I want this to be clipped.
01:20
Then I'll right click and choose enter
01:24
and just like that, you can see
01:26
the existing contours
01:29
no longer show through the improvement areas.
01:33
Next, let's look at the N copy command.
01:36
This command can be useful if you want to copy an object that exists in an actual X
01:42
ref
01:43
into the current drawing as an independent C
01:46
ad object that can be edited without affecting the X
01:49
ref itself. In
01:50
this example, we can go back to the civil data,
01:54
but we'll turn off the X clips so that we can see
01:57
the existing contours and spot elevations inside of the improvement area.
02:02
So let's go back to X clip
02:06
and will simply choose off
02:10
so that we can now see the spot elevations and the contours inside of
02:15
the improvement area.
02:18
In this example,
02:20
we may want to bring in some of the spot elevations.
02:24
We'll type in N copy
02:27
to get started.
02:29
We'll select
02:31
the spot elevations
02:32
and their markers,
02:35
right? Click, choose enter
02:38
and for the base point,
02:40
let's use
02:42
the intersection
02:44
of one of these markers
02:47
and then the same intersection.
02:50
Now, when we hover over the text,
02:53
you can see that the selection, cycling icon appears
02:57
and we now have text
02:60
and the X reference.
03:02
So these objects have now been placed in the drawing
03:06
in case we need it for further reference,
03:09
it can be moved
03:10
and edited as needed
03:13
to finish this example. Type in X clip again,
03:18
select the existing contours
03:21
and choose on
03:23
from the list of options
03:26
because we had done
03:28
an X clip previously,
03:31
the boundary was already stored.
03:33
Now all we had to do was turn it on
03:36
so that the contours disappeared.
03:39
But notice the spot elevations that we end copied
03:43
are still in the improvement area.
03:46
As you can see the X clip and N copy commands
03:50
provide you with the ability to hide or reuse data.
03:53
When working with
03:55
Xrefs.
03:55
They're both easy to use and can save you a lot of work when using X
04:00
refs.
Video transcript
00:04
The X click command can be used to clip out a portion of an X
00:07
ref if that portion is not needed to be shown,
00:11
it prevents extraneous information from cluttering the drawing.
00:16
Here's an example of a civil drawing with an X
00:19
ref of the site plan, including the design contours and existing site contours.
00:25
In some projects,
00:27
the existing contours will be faded back and
00:29
may be visible in the improvement areas.
00:32
If this is the case and you don't want to see the contours in the improvement areas,
00:38
you can remove the existing contours from the
00:40
improvement areas by using the X clip command
00:45
type in
00:46
X clip to get started.
00:48
When prompted to select objects,
00:50
select the external reference that you want to clip,
00:54
then
00:55
choose new boundary,
00:57
select
00:58
invert clip as what we wanna do is clip out the inside
01:04
of the improvement areas.
01:06
And now we'll choose polygonal so that we can pick the points
01:11
that we want.
01:12
So I'll trace
01:14
the outside of where I want this to be clipped.
01:20
Then I'll right click and choose enter
01:24
and just like that, you can see
01:26
the existing contours
01:29
no longer show through the improvement areas.
01:33
Next, let's look at the N copy command.
01:36
This command can be useful if you want to copy an object that exists in an actual X
01:42
ref
01:43
into the current drawing as an independent C
01:46
ad object that can be edited without affecting the X
01:49
ref itself. In
01:50
this example, we can go back to the civil data,
01:54
but we'll turn off the X clips so that we can see
01:57
the existing contours and spot elevations inside of the improvement area.
02:02
So let's go back to X clip
02:06
and will simply choose off
02:10
so that we can now see the spot elevations and the contours inside of
02:15
the improvement area.
02:18
In this example,
02:20
we may want to bring in some of the spot elevations.
02:24
We'll type in N copy
02:27
to get started.
02:29
We'll select
02:31
the spot elevations
02:32
and their markers,
02:35
right? Click, choose enter
02:38
and for the base point,
02:40
let's use
02:42
the intersection
02:44
of one of these markers
02:47
and then the same intersection.
02:50
Now, when we hover over the text,
02:53
you can see that the selection, cycling icon appears
02:57
and we now have text
02:60
and the X reference.
03:02
So these objects have now been placed in the drawing
03:06
in case we need it for further reference,
03:09
it can be moved
03:10
and edited as needed
03:13
to finish this example. Type in X clip again,
03:18
select the existing contours
03:21
and choose on
03:23
from the list of options
03:26
because we had done
03:28
an X clip previously,
03:31
the boundary was already stored.
03:33
Now all we had to do was turn it on
03:36
so that the contours disappeared.
03:39
But notice the spot elevations that we end copied
03:43
are still in the improvement area.
03:46
As you can see the X clip and N copy commands
03:50
provide you with the ability to hide or reuse data.
03:53
When working with
03:55
Xrefs.
03:55
They're both easy to use and can save you a lot of work when using X
04:00
refs.
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