Create All Closed Areas

On the Shape tab, in the Split/Merge group: Click Create All Closed Areas to create a set of shapes from the areas enclosed by a set of input shapes. (Ctrl+T,C)

Do the following:

1. Select the Source of the data that will be used as input to the function:

   Selection	Design elements you have interactively selected in the Design Window.
   Visible	Design elements that are visible in the loaded layer. Elements that have been specifically hidden are excluded. This a quick way of selecting all visible elements in a layer without having to explicitly select them.
   Layer	One or more layers that you select. Names of layers currently loaded in the Design Window are shown in bold.

   For large datasets, for performance reasons you may prefer to select a layer rather than load that layer and select all of the elements in the layer.

   Selecting a non-applicable layer will have no effect. In most cases, an error icon will indicate that the chosen input layer is not valid. Hover over the icon to view a validation hint.

2. Use the drop-down to select an Output Layer.

   Tip: In the Layer Selection pane, you can right-click on the Layers node (or a folder) to Add a new layer.

   

3. Click Apply to create all closed areas. For example, two rectangles intersected by four vertical lines are selected as the input data:

   

   All areas enclosed by the selected shapes are now selectable:

   

See also: Create All Closed Volumes