detele by rectangle

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thank u for ur response.

unfortunately the skill code does not work,

this code deletes clines located outside of the selection area and does not delete clines located inside of the selection area.

it looks like any clines which are not vertical and horizontal are ignored on this code and any clines on the selected area are deleted by segment.

regards

masa 

Hi Masa,

It is possible to do a delete by rectangle so that segments either inside or outside the area get deleted. This would be a regular rectangle not one that is offset. Have you tried it out ?, seems fairly usable.

Go to Manufacture > Drafting and choose "Delete by rectangle" , next go to the options panel and select remove within rectangle.

Next draw a rectangle around your clines so they highlight, then draw the rectangle again to cover the area of those highlighted cline's and
the area inside the rectangle will get deleted.

Best regards.

thank u for ur response,

i do know how to use the delete by rectangle command but the poligon selection does not work.

what i would like to know is how to get his below.

regards

masa

you should be able to write a SKILL around SCALPEL that does the job. SCALPEL cuts the traces at intersect while the vertexes against the closed loop will give you the information of the clines located inside the loop.

thank u for ur  response.

unfortunately as i wrote above, the scalpel code does not work.

this skill code deletes clines located outside of the selected area and does not delete some clines located inside of the selected area.

and unfortuantely i do not know how to write a skill code.

regards

masa