To Crop Linework or Profile-Based Objects

Use this procedure to crop linework or a profile-based object to a smaller area with a boundary you define. You can crop hatches, lines, polylines, arcs, circles, AEC polygons, mass element extrusions, spaces, and/or blocks. Neither the linework to be cropped nor the linework that defines the new boundary needs to have closed boundaries. For example, you can use a v-shaped polyline to crop a circle, or you can use a circle to crop a v-shaped polyline. Once you have begun the Crop command, you can also specify two corners of a rectangle to crop the linework or objects.

1. Draw the linework that defines the new boundary to which you want to crop the existing linework.
2. Click Home tabModify panelObscure Crop drop-downCrop.
3. Select the linework to crop and press Enter.
4. Select the linework you want to define the new boundary (the linework you drew in Step 1), and press Enter.
5. Press Enter to keep the selected linework (the crop boundary), or enter y (Yes) to erase it.

   All of the originally selected linework outside the crop boundary is erased. If you choose to erase the crop boundary, boundaries are redrawn for any closed-boundary entities inside the crop area, but any open-boundary objects that have been cropped remain open.

   

   Cropping a block with a polyline

6. Alternately, press Enter after Step 2 and specify a rectangular shape to crop the linework or object.