Boundary

Boundaries

Description

Pick points in boundary

Specifies the closed areas in which to place the boundary; temporarily dismisses the dialog box, and then prompts you at the command bar:

Pick a point to define a boundary or hatch area or [Select entities/Undo]: - (enter an option):

• Pick a point to define a boundary or hatch area - pick a point inside an area closed by entities (ignore the reference to hatch area)

• Select entities - allows you to select individual entities forming a closed area

• Undo - un-selects the last selected entities

Notice that BricsCAD highlights draws the boundary, allowing you to preview it. The prompt repeats, allowing you to choose additional areas, entities, or undo the selection. When done selecting areas, press Enter return to the dialog box.

Boundary tolerance

Determines the largest gap that can exist in the boundary for the program to consider the area closed; enter a value:

• 0 - no gaps allowed to exist

Boundary set

Specifies where BricsCAD should search for entities that make up the boundary. Select an option from the droplist:

• Current Viewport - searches all entities in the current viewport

• Existing Set - searches only the current selection set for possible boundaries

New

Creates a new selection set of entities that make up the boundary; temporarily dismisses the dialog box, and then prompts you at the command bar:

Select entities - (use any selection method to choose one or more entities)

The prompt repeats, allowing you to choose additional entities. When done selecting entities, press Enter to return to the dialog box.

Retain Boundaries as

Specifies how to handle the boundary entity; currently, the only option is to make the boundary out of a polyline, and then retain the boundary after you exit the dialog box.

Islands

Determines how the boundary search algorithm treats "islands", boundaries that are found inside the boundary.

Choose one:

• Nested - the program treats every island as a boundary

• Outer - the program creates a boundary of only the outermost entities

• Ignore - the program creates one boundary, like the Outer option; the Ignore option means only something for hatches and gradients, not boundaries