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displayed. Regardless of the current UCS, the clip depth is applied parallel to
the clipping boundary.
■ Front Clip Point. Creates a clipping plane passing through and
perpendicular to the clipping boundary.
■ Distance. Creates a clipping plane the specified distance from and parallel
to the clipping boundary.
■ Remove. Removes both the front and back clipping planes.
Delete Removes a clipping boundary for the selected xref or block. To
temporarily turn off a clipping boundary, use the Off option. Delete erases
the clipping boundary and the clipdepth. The
ERASE on page 730 command
cannot be used to delete clipping boundaries.
Generate Polyline Automatically draws a polyline coincident with the clipping
boundary. The polyline assumes the current layer, linetype, lineweight, and
color settings. Use this option when you want to modify the current clipping
boundary using
PEDIT on page 1435 and then redefine the clipping boundary
with the new polyline. To see the entire xref while redefining the boundary,
use the Off option.
New Boundary Defines a rectangular or polygonal clipping boundary, or
generates a polygonal clipping boundary from a polyline.
NOTE You can only create a new clipping boundary for a selected XREF underlay
when the old boundary is deleted.
■ Select Polyline. Defines the boundary with the selected polyline. The
polyline can be open but must consist of straight line segments and cannot
intersect itself.
■ Polygonal. Defines a polygonal clipping boundary with three or more
points that you specify for the vertices of a polygon.
■ Rectangular. Defines a rectangular boundary with the points that you
specify for opposite corners.
■ Invert Clip. Inverts the mode of the clipping boundary: objects are clipped
either outside the boundary or inside the boundary.
Viewport Prompts
NOTE You cannot clip a viewport in model space. You must be in paper space.
Clipping Object Select the viewport to clip.
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