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Using a wipeout effectively - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
Using a wipeout effectively
- [Instructor] We're staying in our 08_MarkUp.dwg file, and what we're going to look at is marking up an AutoCAD drawing as mentioned in the previous video. And the first type of markup we're going to use is called a Wipeout. Now Wipeout basically creates a polyline, but anything inside the boundary of that polyline is hidden, it's wiped out. It's a bit like sticking a large Post-It note over something so that you cannot see it. So we're in our 08_MarkUp drawing, we've got the AutoCAD table there, and I'm going to Wipeout the AutoCAD table from the drawing. Now something you might want to do, based on the fact that you created a markup layer in the previous video, is go into your Layer Properties manager, and make sure that your markups here, if I just scroll across slightly, are set not to plot, like so. So they will hide objects, but they won't plot, when you plot the drawing. Otherwise you'll end up with these like polylines everywhere. So just make sure you set it like that, and…
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