Provides a way to clip specified portions of blocks, xref drawings, images, and wipeout
objects, by clipping or removing the display of all other objects with a polyline,
circle, arc, ellipse, text, mtext, or attribute definition. With the CLIPIT tool,
you can use arcs, circles, or polylines to define clipping boundaries for blocks,
xrefs, images, and wipeouts.

CLIPIT makes clipping to curved boundaries possible by traversing arc segments with
a series of short straight segments. You control the precision with which it traverses
arc segments by specifying the maximum distance between the midpoint of any given
segment and the arc:

Entering a large error value results in fewer segments and faster performance, but
arcs appear less smooth. Conversely, entering a very small value results in smooth
clipping along arcs, but places more of a processing burden during regeneration.

Example

Draw a polyline, a circle, or an arc, and clip a portion of an externally referenced
floor plan.

Select a circle as the clipping boundary:

Select the xref:

The xref is clipped with a circle as the clipping boundary:

File

clipit.lsp