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Clip Referenced Drawings and Blocks
Concept Procedure Quick Reference
 
 
 

To clip an xref

  1. At the command prompt, enter xclip.

  2. Select a an xref.
  3. At the prompt, specify New Boundary by pressing ENTER.
  4. Specify a rectangular or polygonal clipping boundary. Specify the corners or vertices of the boundary.
  5. (Optional) Use the Invert Clip option to change the area to be hidden from outside to inside the clipping boundary.

    The xref is clipped based on the area that you specified and hides the portion of the xref either inside or outside the clipping boundary.

 Command entry: XCLIP