Joana Rzepa Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I am drawing a 2D plan with rectangles. I want 3 of the sides to have lines but one side not. I also want to fill in the rectangle using the polygon tool, for which it needs to be joined up. Is there a way of having a filled in rectangle with only 3 lines visible? I've tried making the 4th line white so its invisible but when I fill it in, the line reappears. Really basic question no doubt as I am completely new to Vectorworks. Any help appreciated. Many thanks Jo Quote Link to comment
Joana Rzepa Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 Ignore the below - just worked out you can crop a viewport so I can hide the lines around the boundaries anyway Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Actually there is a really cool way. Select the rectangle. Modify > Convert > Convert to Polygon. Now double click the rectangle to get the reshape tool. use the last mode. Click on the middle handle of any side to make that line go invisible. You can do this with any polygon or poly line. Rectangles just need to be created as a polygon or converted to a polygon first. 3 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 4 hours ago, Joana Rzepa said: I also want to fill in the rectangle using the polygon tool, for which it needs to be joined up. Is there a way of having a filled in rectangle with only 3 lines visible? I've tried making the 4th line white so its invisible but when I fill it in, the line reappears. 48 minutes ago, michaelk said: Actually there is a really cool way. Select the rectangle. Modify > Convert > Convert to Polygon. Now double click the rectangle to get the reshape tool. use the last mode. Click on the middle handle of any side to make that line go invisible. You can do this with any polygon or poly line. Rectangles just need to be created as a polygon or converted to a polygon first. If your shape was created by the Polygon tool (possibly paint bucket mode?) MichaelK's method will work without conversion. The objects created by the paint bucket and other fill modes of the Polygon tool are already polygons or polylines. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Joana Rzepa Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 Thanks both! Appreciate your quick replies. I’ll give it a go. Jo Quote Link to comment
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