Drawing Editor - Autoblanking

The Drawing Editor enables you to blank out selected parts of a drawing. This could be used, for example, to blank out the graphics behind a label. There are three principal options:

• Create a blank (in the form of a shape (usually a rectangle) defining the outline of a blank).

• Hide items covered by a blank (and make the blank itself invisible).

• Edit a blank (various options).

These operations, and the different ways of performing them, are described below.

Note:
Blanks are automatically placed on a special layer called PDMS_BLANKS, even if this is not your current layer.

When a drawing is updated, any drawing items other than text which were not covered by blanks return to the default state, which is covered. Editing Blanks describes how to uncover selected drawing items.

Note:
Draft can perform the blanking as well, and the blanked out parts would be then transferred to AutoDRAFT unchanged. This chapter discusses the blanking, that can be done in AutoDRAFT on parts that have not been blanked out by Draft.