REGION — Region

Converts closed curves into regions.

• Command: REGION · Global name: _REGION · Alias: REG
• Ribbon: Home › Draw
• Menu: Draw

Converts closed curves into regions: flat surfaces saved in the same way as in AutoCAD. Each closed curve selected becomes a region and the original curve is erased.

Usage

1. Enter REGION (or REG) or click Region. If objects were already selected, those are used.
2. Select closed polylines, circles, ellipses or closed splines.

Select objects:

3. Press Enter. The program reports how many loops it found and how many regions it created.

Notes

• Each region takes the layer, color and linetype of the curve it comes from.
• Only closed curves made of a single object can be used: separate lines or arcs that enclose an area are not joined into a region. For that, use BOUNDARY with the Region type or join the segments with PEDIT.
• Ellipses and splines are turned into a very fine polygon that approximates them.
• There are no operations between regions (union, subtraction, intersection).
• To get curves back, explode the region with EXPLODE.

See also

BOUNDARY · EXPLODE · AREA · Selecting objects