The Optimized Fence Clipping in CONNECT is not working.

Question

I am trying to maintain closed shapes during a fence clip operation. I have Optimized Fence Clipping toggled on, but shapes always drop to lines and line strings. Are there any other settings or preferences that need to be set so the fence clipping operation will not drop closed shapes to individual elements? Any tips?

Henk Ligtvoet · Answer

Hi Tom, 
 
I was not able to replicate the behavior you are describing. 
Can you please elaborate on what you are doing and share a dataset: 
- which CONNECT version are you using? 
- are you working in a 2D or 3D file, is the file format DGN or DWG? 
- are the shapes really planar? 
- did you customize your environment, if so, can you try also in an 'out of the box' installation? 
- are you copying data from a reference file into a master file? 
- next to: 
 File>Settings>User>Preferences>Operation: Fence: Use Optimized Fence Clipping 
 also check ON: 
- File>Save As> Options>Reference Tab> Allow Optimized Clip for Reference Merge 
 
HTH. 
 
Regards, 
 
Henk