Solids and Holes

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Perspectives Pro includes some solid entities to create platforms, stairs, balconies, towers and holes. The appearance of a solid is determined by the current Perspectives Settings $image\Peropt.gif$ . Cylinders, 3D Boxes (correctly known as a right parallelepipeds) and 3D Polys (a polygon, extruded vertically) are all available.

After you’ve drawn the base of a solid, you are asked for its height – if you select a point above the base, you will get a solid, if you select a point below the base, a hole.

Beta Solids

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Other solids are available, but these are currently beta versions. They do not hatch properly. Type in their text equivalents to use them – but remember they are betas. We recommend that you use them with a Perspective Setting that does not have a hatch pattern (for example, Current Color, Solid)

Solid	Text Equivalent
Pyramid	IPYRAMID
Cone	ICONE
Sphere	ISPHERE
Spherical section	ISPHERA
Rectangular-based slope	IBOXA