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236 Markup: Working with the WIPEOUT command in your drawings

236 Markup: Working with the WIPEOUT command in your drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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236 Markup: Working with the WIPEOUT command in your drawings

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to be taking a look now at a markup tool that's really useful in AutoCAD. So we've got a new drawing for you, 236_MARKUP_Wipeout.dwg. Now, a wipeout is normally when a surfer crashes through a wave and falls off their board. Not in this case. What you're doing is you're wiping out something in your AutoCAD drawing 'cause you don't want it to be seen. So that's what the wipeout command is for. Now, you can find the wipeout command in the home tab on the ribbon. It's in the draw panel over here, because you're actually drawing a wipeout. So I'll just pin the draw panel open like so, like you would normally. Now wipeout is this one just here. There's the wipeout command, and you're creating a wipeout object. You want to hide something in your drawing. Now you'll notice we're on the wipeout layer as well. So we've got some layers over here, like so. Just make sure you are on the wipeout layer because you want your…

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