How to get white text?

[patricks]

I'm trying to show a layout of a project sign in a Revit drafting view. I have an area that will be a solid red background, which white text. I have the text set to White, transparent, but the text still shows as black, even when printed. If I change it to any other color, it works fine.

If I set the color to 254-255-255 (or any of the numbers to 254 and the rest at 255) then it appears to work, but I was hoping for true white text. I don't want to end up seeing tiny colored dots spaced out in that text area when it's printed, because the printer thinks it's supposed to be just barely off of true white (no ink) and so it ends up putting down a few dots here and there in the "white" area.

[Kirk Bricker]

patricks,

I tried to invert my background color in Revit to see if it would print white text (AutoCAD trick), but it didn't work.

Only way I see is to export your Revit view as an AutoCAD document. Explode font in AutoCAD using the express tools (depends on your font type also, you might need the font loaded into AutoCAD) explode the font again from polylines to get lines and arcs. You can than import exploded font.dwg back into Revit, full explode the .dwg in Revit, and paste the lines into the sketch mode of the red filled region. You will have a bunch of cleaning up to do while in sketch mode to get completed sketch lines.

AutoCAD kind of screams when you want to explode text, sometimes it does a terrible job of exploding the text based on the complexity of the font.

You can also free hand trace over the font while you are in the sketch mode of the red filled region, finish sketch, than delete the text and it should print white. That all depends on the size of the text, the font complexity. Those all can make it a bit time consuming.

Good Luck,

Kirk

[Scott D Davis]

best bet is to use a slightly off-white color, which you have already found. Don't worry about how it prints because it will be sooooo subtle the only person to notice will be you (because you know).

[dbaldacchino]

Patrick, that's the technique I've used before. You can't tell the difference on screen or printed.

[patricks]

yea that's what I did. I just hate trying to edit the text because you can't see it when in edit mode, unless you highlight all or part of the text.

[ron.sanpedro]

yea that's what I did. I just hate trying to edit the text because you can't see it when in edit mode, unless you highlight all or part of the text.

It is certainly something that should be treated as a bug by the Factory. Sure, it has a workaround/kludge, but true white text that can be easily edited, works on top of any color of filled region (or on top of dark model items for that matter), and exports to PDF, DWF and DWG correctly and cleanly should be the goal.

Gordon

[Maximillian]

if you use 254-254-254 it will be a super light grey instead of a 254-255-255 color. That may help top avoid any color artifacts.