Wipeouts are a feature we just really starting using in the past year. We have expirenced plotting issues when using a wipeout that is not a rectangle. Have you ever heard of or expirenced a problem when plotting wipeouts.

Thanks,
Chris

I have often wondered how that command worked. I myself have never used it. I prefer to put the objects in question into a new layer then turn that layer off… If I use the wipout command.. How do I make the objects reappear if they are needed in a new drawing???

Tina, if you are talking about the Wipeout objects themselves, enter the toggle command TFRAMES which will make them appear (enter TFRAMES again will make them disappear again).

I typically create a layer JUST for my wipeouts. That way, if someone needs to xref in my drawing, and don’t want my wipeouts affecting the xref in their drawing, they can simply turn off the wipeout xref layer.

Chris, I have never heard of a non-rectangle wipeout causing plotting problems. However, one problem I have had is wipeouts plotting as black solids. The trick to get around this is to give the wipeouts a byentity color of 255.

Also, another problem I have noticed is cutting and pasting wipeouts will also cause problems. Therefore, if I need a new wipeout, I always create it from scratch.

There have been issues where wipeouts print out as black, usually when printing from a PDF created from an Autocad file. In such a case, use the “Print as Image” option in your PDF reader to get the wipeouts to come out normally.

AutoCAD WIPEOUT entities have a long and notorious history of printing problems. When testing and setting up print drivers with each new release of AutoCAD, I have a ringer of a DWG that contains some of the more problematic entity tipes, wipeouts included, but also containing rectangular and polygonally clipped images, XREFs, textmasks, etc.

We have access to a wide range of printers and plotters, thus different plot drivers, and the results are quite varying. To this day, OCE plotters have a difficult time with polygonal WIPEOUTs, where the driver also erroneously plots the “bounding frame” containing the wipeout.

It would be better if the WIPEOUT command had options like the TEXTMASK command has, to either create a wipeout, a 3dface, or a solid. I prefer using a solid set to a layer using color 255, as a more reliable option.

I believe some of the problems with wipeouts, since these are 2 bit bitonal raster images, that the XOR function in some print drivers gets confused, inversing the color, and one gets a black wipeout region instead of one that is white or “paper”.

I have seen this topic come up a lot on CAD forums and such. It seems common when you save your drawing to a pdf file and then try printing that. I have found that the higher quality pdf programs handle the wipeout command better. I use Bluebeam Revu and it works well. I’m sure there are others that work too, I just haven’t used them.

When I create a whipout that is any shape other than a rectangle/square the whipeout appears to be working until I plot out the drawings. The whipout will ignore the shaped framed area and wipeout everything in a square or rectangle pattern instead. Any ideas what is going on here? Thanks

I someone can solve my problem… I print documents with wipeouts to pdfs and it looks fine, but when the printer opens the pdf document, the wipeout areas are masked black and prints like that as well. The printer and I are both using the same Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional…. so it does not seem to be a compatibility issue. Suggestions will be great. Thank you.

Hi,
When I create a wipe out in polygonal shape it looks fine in drawing but when i print that time it ignores polygonal shape in print. did any one know what should have to resolve this problem. it will be great help for me.

I discovered myself that you can make circular wipeouts, by using the polygon command an typing a high numner of side, 90 for example, then using wipeout–select polyline–erase polyline–Yes.
And you get a “circular” image, it is very useful , you can use to make small rounded corners, use your imagination.
Ruben Solano,

Using quick select ( with toogle frames ON ) select all the raster images ( result of wipeout ) and send them to back, then turn ‘em back to OFF. It should work.

Hello. I agree that any copied wipeouts cause issues as the wipeout appears infront of the text and there is no way to change the order. When I exited out of my drawing and restarted it this morning, all of the wipeouts appear to be gone, except for the polygon  that I created them with. Is there any easier solution than the wipeout command? BTW, my wipeouts are in paperspace. I also did use the tframe command and it seemed to not make any difference. I would much appreciate any help.
Thanks!