Creating a Plan View Pipe Mask for Fittings

[Silvercloak]

Hi,

 

    One problem I've having is getting my fittings to appear when the drawing is plotted.  I can't get convertlineworktomaskblock to mask any plan view pipes.  Nor does wipeout seem to help me.  I've created a Valve style and tried to use part mask to mask the pipe out.  Right now I'm getting this;

 

 

When what I actually want is more like this;

 

I really do NOT want to go back to just using polylines and blocks.  Please tell me there's a solution to this.

 

Silvercloak

[BIGAL]

Draw order can be quite critical when using wipeout I had underlying, then mask, then new over top in mask area. From memory do backwards draworder top 1st.

[Silvercloak]

That's the first thing I tried.  It hasn't made a difference.  I'm absolutely baffled as to why this isn't working.  I know it CAN work because I had Null structures that were breaking the pipe previously that I used to turn off when I didn't need to see them.  Now even they aren't breaking the pipe with part mask.  I'm completely baffled as to what changed to make this pipe seemingly indestructible.

 

Silvercloak

[steven-g]

Cany you post an example file, so we can see what is going on.

[SLW210]

This seems to be a Civil 3D issue.

[Silvercloak]

4 hours ago, SLW210 said:

This seems to be a Civil 3D issue.

Thanks for moving the thread.  I'll try to keep my questions here in the future.

[Silvercloak]

10 hours ago, steven-g said:

Cany you post an example file, so we can see what is going on.

Here's an example file.  I've tried to limit what I show and stripped the file down so I don't post anything proprietary from my company.  However this should suffice to show what I'm dealing with right now.

 

Thanks Steven,

 

Silvercloak

Pipe Example.dwg

[BIGAL]

Worked for me just did draworder. kept wipeout outline so can see. Make sure your wipe out is on a plot on layer.

Edited January 10, 2020 by BIGAL

[Silvercloak]

Is that structure masking or just a wipeout separate from the structure?

[BIGAL]

Separate wipeout, the valve is a Aecc object I haven't used so if a block maybe check wipeout draw order.

 

I bedited PWBEGV and added a wipeout, then draw order to back, save new block, seems to have worked.