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Hello Again DataCAD Pros.

Could someone remind me how to use the Clipit function?

Thanks,

CADwk

Pages 328 through 330 in the Reference Manual, under the heading "Clipping ad Cropping," have the directions for using the ClipIt macro.

Thanks Mark

Clipit was not working for me either. I am using DataCad 18 and I still like my vintage tools because I am used to them. Here was the problem for me: Clipit would go through its passes, then without completing the clip, would be ready for me to input the next clip. I could not copy, move, delete, whatever. If my boundary was on, it would just show up and I could do another one, but it was not working. If I hit refresh, all the boundaries I would draw would clear away. But I found a workaround. As it was going though its clipit pass process, I hit delete and for some reason it completed its process and allowed me to move the clip where I wanted. Weird.

With our ability to have voids in associative hatch - I have not even thought about using ClipIt in at least a decade.

Yeah, I don't use it for that.

Okay - I'll ask: how do you use ClipIt?

Would either Free Trim and/or 1-Line Trim work, as well?

Well, I have used it for that, but not at the moment. I primarily use it to grab an area of entities that I want to copy and/or give greater detail to for a very specific condition. Maybe a cross or wall section where I want to create a new detail altogether.

Okay, I use Control-E for that, all the time.

I use Ctrl-E too, but mostly for grabbing an area to view in o2c or to copy to another file or layer. I don't see how to clip the long entities that I don't want in an area just using Ctrl-E however. Probably there is a way...probably I am blind.

If I am understanding you right, I think I would use 1-Line Trim for that.

But that is why Clipit is so handy for me. It clips or crops, and copies, moves, deletes, all in one function. I don't have to trim everything, then have to either Ctrl-E or move/copy an area. And, I leave an area of my original work unscathed, instead of having to cut everything and then move or copy it. Does that make sense or am I missing something?

Clip-It is/was very handy for just this reason. The reason we stopped using it was because it didn't clip xrefs or symbols.

I use C/F7 to Copy/Drag.
I use Alt-G to Free Trim.
I use M/F1 to Move/Drag.
I use Ctrl E to Copy or Cut with or without an Insertion Point.
I use Alt-J to do 2 Line Trim.
I use Alt-Y to do 1 Line Trim, and I place the cursor on the outside of the trim line. If I don't want to 1 Line Trim to an entity, I use Alt-Y/F1.

I always use associative hatch, so I almost never have to clip/erase an area. I use Ctrl-E/Cut if I do ever need this.

I use all of those shortcuts, but Alt + G only gets me into the Geometry menu. I haven't customized a shortcut for free trim. Did you mean Alt+C?