AutoCAD 2010 :: Weird Rectangle Around A Block Looks Like A Crop
Jun 13, 2011
i have some blocks have a rectangle rounded, there is a an arrow on that rectangle by clicking on it, it will do invert which will make the blockk dispear as if u doing a crop for an image but this time is a block is that normal.
I am missing a crop tool which can rotate the crop rectangle. Similar to photoshop's tool. I found no way to rotate the crop rectangle in gimp. How do you cut out something from an image if it needs to be rotated while cropping? I tried rotating first then cropping but it does not give me enough precision so I end up with transparent areas at the border.
I'm trying to crop a rectangle that is slightly off square, so the cropping rectangle is either clipping part of the image or not enough of the empty space. Is there a way to clip a non-rectangular area?
The images are actually parts of a map as a specific projection, and need to be clipped non-rectangular so they match up.
I'm using CS6 on my MacPro and and MacBook Pro (both running 10.6.8). When i use the crop tool on my laptop, an annoying black rectangle with dimensional data pops up whenever I crop. This does not happen on my desktop. I need this turned off on my laptop as well.
I was wondering if there is an option in Paint.net to crop pictures not in the usual rectangle shape but like using scissors, like someone that cuts a drawing he did on a sheet of paper with scissors, which means to crop in any shape that I want.
I watched Adobe TV Illustrator's tutorial about cropping images with a clipping mask. In the video, the presenter uses the rectangle tool with the clipping mask, and makes a reference that the circle or vector shape could be used, but I cannot figure out how to get the circle.
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I'm new to Illustrator and need step by step instructions!
I want to make a dynamic block that is made up of a rectangle. This rectangle will have an arrow on one side. The dynamic part will be to rotate the arrow to the center of any of each of the four sides.
i have created a block with n attribute.i insert the block with attribute filled with fields.I send the commande "Regen" for update field.
Now i want to add a rectangle in the block définition.I use GeometricExtents. it works fine only when then the rotation is 0 and UCS on UCSW.how i can create the line with the 4 points ? I want the line include all entity in my block def.I joined a zip with : 2.dwg is the XRef in 3.dwg
My bloc show info from xref (2.dwg).in the dwg. the bloc contain a line. The libe i manualy added when i create the blockreccord
I need to center-align a rectangle to a group/block object (also it's midle), how do I do that? Can I create/insert a grip or snap point in the midle of the group/block object?
this day one using autocad and my first post, I have to draw a rectangular slot with rounded ends in a baseplate. My question is how do I round the ends of the rectangle.
Is it possible, via whatever methods (lisp?) to be able to have a premade block with an attribute and insert it into a drawing then assign a value to it by selecting another existing block in the drawing and using one of its own attribute’s values?
For example, say I have a block representing a telephone and it had an attribute called "PhoneNo" and I inserted it into a drawing showing an office floor plan that had blocks in each office space that are telephone junction boxes with attributes "PhoneExtension". I would like to be able to autocomplete the entering of the “PhoneNo” data by selecting one of the telephone junction boxes in the drawing and using its attribute’s value.
I have created a dynamic block with a stretch, flip and rotate. Everything works great in its file. When I insert it in another file, the grips move but the block does not change.
We have a title block and border which is used in MS. If this is referenced using AMTITLE then it acts as expected. We issue these to some external people to create our drawings but they have been using CTRL-C and V to place them in a new drawing. ACAD does now not see them as a Title block or border but as blocks. We have a process to bring DWG's into SAP and this will check for a title block and border.
The issue is we need to fix these drawings and currently this means removing the borders and title blocks and placing new ones then adding all the attributes again. Is there a way to convert the blocks back to how they should be?
The pickbox keeps turning into a rectangle and not a perfect square. It's width is less than its height. This keeps happening and is annoying. When I close AutoCAD 2012 and then reopen the drawing its a square, but soon turns into a rectangle.
I have a block (room info) that has five line os text with attributes that display grips which allow them to be moved in whatever drawing I put them in. Within that block there is a little polyline that is the square with a dash through it to represent sq. ft. that I made into a seperate block ( sq ft tick). The room info block part of it works great in all my drawings, but the darn sq ft tick block within the room info block won't budge! I have tried giving it a seperate insertion point and giving that block its own attribute, but no luck.
Is there any way to have a block within a block that has the same ability to move around as the other elements?
I am trying to use a title block I made as a template in a paperspace. I made the title block in the model space of a separate drawing, its origin is at 0,0. I used the WBLOCK command to make the title block into its own saved block, but when I insert it into the paperspace of the drawing that I want to use the title block in the drawing of the title block is larger than the white rectangle which represents the paper. I can insert viewports and print the drawing fine, but the drawing of my title block being larger than the white area of the paperspace bugs me. How do I make it bigger?
Here is a picture of what I'm talking about, and the second picture is without the "img" layer that I am referencing to make the shapes:
The text layer is labeled "bg" and the shoe and pants layer is labeled "shoe" of course. I am not worried about the "E" because the text behind it adds to the "texture." I just want the shoe to be shown without the underlying text (the ground; "bg") layer. I would like for the text to not be shown beneath the shoe. I've tried all of the Pathfinder options. I could just outline the shoe I suppose and I guess I could do a clipping mask or something, but I don't if that'd work as I'm still a beginner at using Illustrator and I figured maybe there was an easier option.
My company works the location map of the houses that built in AutoCAD, I need that map in my titble block in Revit, so I insert the CAD in the family of my title block, but is static, i can't move it, i need something like CropView that gave me the oportunity to hide part of the CAD.
I make the exercise inserting the CAD in a ceiling plan view of the project to have the flexibility of hide part of the map (Crop view), but only work if I inserted in one sheet not all that i have.
From time to time, when either moving text with a grip, or placing a dimension, or drawing a line or whatever, AutoCAD just randomly decides to snap to zero, zero. I might be miles away from zero, zero, but it still snap me there. The only way I can get around it is to turn my OSNAP off, do what I have to do and then turn it back on again. REALLY annoying. I'm using ACAD 2008, but I remember having this problem on earlier releases too.
I am trying to create a grading in Civil3D 2012, for a stormwater pond design. The sides have a 3:1 slope, and on one side the pond follows natural pre-existing contours, and on the other side there is a construted dam. When I created the grading, the generated feature line has some crazy spikes that are >10000' high. The slopes all look fine, it's just the feature line thats wacky, but it won't let me edit it because its part of a grading, and if I delete it, the pond goes too. In the attached screen shot, the green suface is my existing ground, the blue is my pond, and the white is the problem feature line.
I have a user that has created a couple of drawings where the blocks seem to have some kind of bounding box around them. He used blocks from a server based library that we have been using without issue for a long time.
As a test I used the same library of blocks and had no problem. If I copy/paste the problem drawing into my good drawing the bounding boxes follow along. Tried dxf out, wblock, audit, purge, recover, etc
I have attached the problem drawing and the good test drawing. (The arch background is eliminated to keep file size down)
I have 4 layers (background, layer1, layer2, layer3-text). They fill all 300 x 600 pixels that comprise the .psd/future image. What I want to do is use a rounded rectangle to encompass all of the other layers, so that the surrounding pixels (around the rounded rectangle) are transparent.
I want all of my current layers to be the content of a rounded rectangle.
Any 2D-3D block libraries that are available? I have created a lot of 3D shapes that I use but am looking for more. Preferably 3D blocks that revert to 3D objects when exploded.