topic OK, I give up - what is it?? in Modeling

OK, I give up - what is it??

Aussie John — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:33:11 GMT

the background fill with number -1 has a little screen icon.

What does it do?

(Also FYI a GDL script wont recognise a pen with a negative number)

Re: OK, I give up - what is it??

__archiben — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:40:55 GMT

it is window background colour: similar to wipe-out in autocad - it's something akin to a true patch background - everything behind it gets wiped out to the background colour that you're using.

not used it much yet . . .

just a thought, but will a GDL script recognise '-1' as a pen colour when written in the correct place for background pens?

~/archiben

Re: OK, I give up - what is it??

Aussie John — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:54:04 GMT

~/archiben wrote:

just a thought, but will a GDL script recognise '-1' as a pen colour when written in the correct place for background pens?

~/archiben

No it doesnt Ben

A mask eh? hmm will have to have a look at that

Re: OK, I give up - what is it??

Erika Epstein — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:18:39 GMT

This is useful for masking out areas of a drawing when saving to a dwg. Without it we have all ended up sending an entire floor plan instead of, for example, just the kitchen. Be sure to use the "empty fill" with the last pen choice (looks like a TV and is after the Ø fill) to mask out all areas of the drawing in question.