jinsley

Working in a larger firm (50 - 60 people) I have recently been dealing with an outbreak of the wipeout command being used in our CAD drawings...

I have had nothing but trouble with its use in the past, having it cause huge amounts of drawings to come back from the print shop with massive amounts of black splotches where ever this command was utilized.

How do you guys deal with this in your offices?

I'm sure that it must have some purpose, how do you get your drawings to print correctly? They view fine in .pdf format on-screen, but once they go to print any areas blocked out by "wipeout" show up black...

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prodham

james

wipeout in autocad dates back to pre-paperspace (or at least before viewports could be shaped)......it really has no place in current practice except maybe for layered colour illustration in autocad (which i don't do).

it does seem to pop up in some form when importing vectorworks files as well.....not sure how to deal with that at the moment.

you should be able to turn all the wipeout frames on to delete though....you've tried that ?

jinsley

Thx Paul, that is how I have been fixing the problem so far... its just a pain in the ass to have to check for it and not something I always think of doing... oh well, something to talk about at the Friday afternoon meeting.

Is there anyway to fix the problem so that the drawings don't print with black areas?

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prodham

are you sure the source of the wipeout objects is autocad though ?

i'm dealing with some vectorworks drawings that are full of them. i found them on one layer called 'none', but i suspect that might be just a user choice - and not a program feature.

i just use a filter on the layer and it finds them all - then delete !

jinsley

I have seen the "none" layer before on all the drawings from a landscaper we use, they say that it has to do with the way their blocks operate in Vectorworks...

I am pretty sure though that most of the instances that I have come across were created by people in house.

I was going to ask you the other day if you knew of any Max or Mental Ray user groups that got together once in a while in Vancouver that dealt with visualization... any ideas?

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Antisthenes

what i do is make a pen color that has 0% screening and that has the same effect(to wipe out in side bubbles or any other situation you want to slip a white paper layer between other layers to increase legibility in noisy space)

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