translucent coloring

[Maverick91]

I’m going to put some highlighting and notes over a jpeg image for presentations. Is there a setting or some way to make plines or hatching translucent so that the graphics can be seen through the entities, without using dots for hatching? I’m using ACAD2k4.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

One method -

Place all Solid Hatching / Polylines etc on top of the JPEG Images (must be at the very back of the draworder display).

Then set Lines Merge within your Plotter Configuration File (PC3) -> Device and Document Settings tab -> Graphics -> Merge Control

Have a good one, Mike

[Glenn Pope]

The highlighting the image part is currently a wish list item.
Transparent Layers

[Maverick91]

Hi

One method -

Place all Solid Hatching / Polylines etc on top of the JPEG Images (must be at the very back of the draworder display).

Then set Lines Merge within your Plotter Configuration File (PC3) -> Device and Document Settings tab -> Graphics -> Merge Control

Have a good one, Mike

But I don't want all of my new entities to fade -- just some of them. I want new text and leaders to show opaque.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Pass, the method I mentioned is the only one that I've found as a suitable workaround within AutoCAD.

Have you tried the method? (we've found the results to be acceptable, recently we had to do a lot of this).

ID: TS67590 - Mix raster and vector colors in plot

Would like to hear of any other methods people use to get round this issue / problem when working within AutoCAD.

Have a good one, Mike

[richardtt33978]

Not sure if this is what you want ... but this is a "bandaide" at best ....

Draw your vector elements as you see fit and then move them over 100 feet.
Then copy the elements back 100 feet over the image.

Your elements should now appear over the image.

Aside from that, Mike's approach is the only other one I know.
Hope that helps, sorry if it doesn't.

[Maverick91]

rtorres

That's helpful to ensure tha entities appear over the image. I use that trick with xref's, too. But instead of moving the entities, I do a copy on top of the original, with no displacement. Then the very next step is to erase the proir picked objects.

Unfortunately, this won't help to make the hatch, solids, plines, or others see-thru.