Drawing geometric objects  
Creating and combining areas (Regions)
 
 Overview 
 
 Operations 
 
 Commands 
 

How to create islands of an existing region 

  1. Click on the menu Draw  Region Add island to region.
  2. Select the region to which the island needs to be added.  
  3. Select the objects defining the island.
  4. Press ENTER to confirm.

    A message on the command line will show the result of the operation.

  5. Exit using ESC or ENTER or else select the objects defining an other island.

 

It is also possible to specify a tolerance to join the endpoints when they are not perfectly coinciding.

The surrounding elements are converted in Region. 

 

 Draw toolbar 

 Command line: REGION_AI

Also see:

How to create islands of an existing region using inner points

How to delete islands from a region

How to delete islands from a region and convert them to polylines