Opacity in autocad 2009

Dean is right, but I don't know if it would be an option to try to associate the Solid hatch with a color set to plot at some level of screening.

Or possibly test Dots hatch with various scales to achieve a semi-see-through hatch. No guarantee any of this will work Thanks for the tips. I've always found hatching in CAD to be a pain. Unbelievable that transparency is only a feature for Simple enough function I would have thought.

Have you found a solution? I am currently trying to do the same and wondering if you had found of a solution. Short of upgrading to , you can use a DOT pattern hatch, and space it out so that the underlying information bleeds through.

Alternatively, export the drawing as a raster, and use Gimp or some other raster editor to apply a transparent hatch. Possibly autodesk Impression would work for you? It has some interesting capabilities. Completely fail on your part! This just doesn't make sense to me at all. This simply little option for a solid hatch to create a slider or enter value to make it possible for it to become or appear transparent over an import raster image.

Way to drop the ball their autodesk. You just cost me a client Now I have to go allllll the way into left field because the Autodesk team just now in the release decided to make this an option. And the solutions in here are just plan preposterous and Inefficience. I do not care about plot settings because I'm not going to plotting the drawing. I'm converting it into a PDF to be sent and viewed digitally not physically. Thus the solutions here do not help me at all.

How convenient this is. I might as well throw this program in the trash. Thats how much it is worth to me right now. Well, I have a better solution than anyone in this Autodesk communtiy who thinks inside the box. D I just figured out how to make it appear as if the solid hatch is transparent. By turning of the background or making it transparent the text on the map show through the when transparency is turned on.

That lack was never a showstopper though, and the dot hatch trick has worked well for many of us for a couple of decades. And is not limited to Tobin map backgrounds I would suspect that superhatch with a patially transparent image could give you similar results over any background, and possibly more control.

Opacity control of objects in general is a nice thing to add to the software, but far from critical for much of the customer base. Thanks for you input! I'm over it.. I was just in the moment and I could of sworn I have ran into this problem before in when I got the program.

But what I can't understand is why Why are they only putting this simple little feature in Because lets be honest here if thats what we are doing the release is the exact same programming with added features. Shouldn't this be their priority? AutoCAD is just simple a tool to speed up the process or Drafting. Select the new door style. Click the Design Rules tab.

The two transparent command toolbars are displayed by default when using the Civil 3D workspace. The commands on those toolbars are now available from the ribbon. Enter -toolbar at the command line. Enter Show. Transparent Command Reference Click the Transparent ribbon tab and select the command.

Right-click to display the Transparent Commands context menu and select the command. Activate the Transparent Commands toolbar and select the command. Enter the command at the command line. Want to turn the background mask on or off for all Mleader callouts in your drawing? Select one, right-click, and select the Select Similar option from the menu that opens.

All Mleader callouts in the drawing will be selected, and you can turn the mask on or off as pictured to the right. In the Options dialog box, Display tab, click Colors. In the Drawing Window Colors dialog box, select the context and the interface element that you want to change. On the Color list, select the color that you want to use. Your background will now be transparent. When you add a raster image to a map using Data Connect, it appears in a Display Manager layer.

SeniorCare2Share Care about seniors? Have knowledge? In this example the three Mtext labels have a transparency value of You can set a default transparency value for all new objects and hatches that are created. To do so, with no objects selected, go to the View Ribbon tab, and on the Palettes panel click Properties to open the Properties palette. Here you can enter a number in the Transparency box from 0 to 90 percent. Now, any new objects will automatically have this default transparency value.

If transparency is not displaying in your drawings, then the TransparencyDisplay variable might be turned off. Be sure to set it to 1 to turn it on. Important: For performance reasons, transparency when plotting is disabled by default. To plot transparent objects, simply click the Plot Transparency option in either the Plot dialog box or Page Setup dialog box.

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