Auto Split Region

Introduction

Auto-Split Region is used to cut the intersection part of the current region object and the other regions when drawing region objects. The new object got may be a single object or a complex region object.

• Auto-Split Region functionality applies to region layer or CAD layer.
• If the new object being drawn intersects with other objects, the overlapped part of the new object will be cut resulting in a new object.
• If the new object crosses an existing region object, the program will generate a complex region object which has child objects. As shown below, the new region object (dotted line rectangle) crosses another region object (filled rectangle), the result will be a complex object that contains 2 subobjects.
  

Basic Steps

1. Click Object Operations > Drawing group > Drawing Settings > Auto-Split Region. You can also press Shift+R to activate this function. Click on this function again to disable it.
2. Draw a region object in the current editable layer. As shown in figure1, draw a rectangle object (in dotted line).
   
3. Since the rectangle intersects with other two rectangles, the application splits it resulting in a new object as shown in the following figure.
   
4. We can hide another two objects, we can see the new object as shown in figure3.
   
5. To disable the function, uncheck the Auto-Split Region.