Revision clouds are
polylines that consist of sequential arcs. They are used to call
attention to parts of a drawing during the review stage.
If you
review or redline drawings, you can increase your productivity by using
the Revision Cloud feature to highlight your markups. REVCLOUD creates a polyline
of sequential arcs to form a cloud-shaped object. You can select
a style for a revision cloud: Normal or Calligraphy. If you select
Calligraphy, the revision cloud looks as if it was drawn with a
calligraphy pen.
You
can create a revision cloud from scratch, or you can convert objects,
such as a circle, ellipse, polyline, or spline, to a revision cloud.
When you convert an object to a revision cloud, the original object
is deleted if DELOBJ is set to 1
(the default).
You
can set the minimum and maximum default values for the arc lengths of
a revision cloud. When you draw a revision cloud, you can vary the
size of the arcs by using pick points for the smaller arc segments.
You can also edit the individual arc lengths and chord lengths of
a revision cloud by adjusting the pick points.
REVCLOUD stores the last
used arc length as a multiple of the DIMSCALE system variable
to provide consistency among drawings with different scale factors.
Make sure that you can see the entire area to
be outlined with REVCLOUD before you begin
the command. REVCLOUD is not designed to support transparent and
real-time panning and zooming.
To create a revision cloud
from scratch
- At the Command prompt, specify a new
minimum and maximum arc length or specify a revision cloud starting
point.
The default minimum and
maximum arc lengths are set to 0.5000 units. The maximum arc length
can be no more than three times the minimum arc length.
- Guide the crosshairs along the cloud
path. You can click pick points along the path if you want to vary
the size of the arcs.
- Press Enter at any time to stop drawing
the revision cloud.
To close the revision
cloud, return to its starting point.
To create revision clouds
with a calligraphy pen style
- At the Command prompt, enter style.
- At the Command prompt, enter calligraphy.
- Press Enter to save the calligraphy setting
and to continue with the command, or press ESC to end the command.
To convert an object to
a revision cloud
- At the Command prompt, specify a new
minimum and maximum arc length or press Enter.
The default minimum and maximum arc lengths
are set to 0.5000 units. The maximum arc length can be no more than
three times the minimum arc length.
- Select the circle, ellipse, polyline,
or spline that you want to convert to a revision cloud.
To reverse the direction of the arcs, enter yes at
the Command prompt and press Enter.
- Press Enter to change the selected object
to a revision cloud.
To change the default values
for arc lengths in a revision cloud
- At the Command prompt, specify a new
minimum arc length and press Enter.
- At the Command prompt, specify a new
maximum arc length and press Enter.
The maximum arc length can be no more than three
times the minimum arc length.
- Press Enter to continue with the command
or ESC to end the command.
To edit the individual
lengths of arcs or chords in a revision cloud
- In your drawing, select the revision
cloud you want to edit.
- Move the pick points along the path of
the revision cloud to change the arc lengths and chords.
CommandsREVCLOUD
Creates a revision cloud
using a polyline.
System VariablesDIMSCALE
Sets the overall scale
factor applied to dimensioning variables that specify sizes, distances,
or offsets.
DELOBJ
Controls
whether geometry used to create 3D objects is retained or deleted.
