Create a Symbol with a Fill for Masking - SmartSketch - Help

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Before you begin, create a symbol with the outermost elements on a separate layer. If the symbol has already been drawn, just select the elements that form the outer edges of the symbol and move the select set to a new layer named Boundary.

  1. Turn off all other layers in the symbol document, except the layer containing the boundary of the symbol.

  2. Create a layer named Fill. This helps to organize the elements that make up a symbol.

  3. With the Fill layer active and the Boundary layer displayed, click the Fill button on the Draw toolbar.

  4. On the Fill ribbon bar, change the style to Solid, and then select the blank color from the pallet.

    The blank color is located in the lower right corner of the standard color pallet.

  5. Click inside the bounding line elements to place the solid blank colored fill. You can see the blank fill when grid display is turned on.

  6. Click to select the fill.

  7. With the fill selected, click the Send To Back button on the Change toolbar.

    This pushes the blank fill to the back of the symbol and allows the detailed elements that make up the interior of a symbol to display on top of the blank fill.

  8. Turn on the display of the other layers containing interior graphics.

  9. Save the symbol.

To use this functionality, you must install the Symbol Authoring option.