AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

I have a road construction ahead sign where I have hatched the background orange (color 30) as a mask since I am using an airphoto for the drawing background.  The block is fine until I try to use it in a multileader, then the hatch color switches to block and I can't read the text.  The block was created on the same layer as it is inserted.  How do I get the orange hatch to show as orange in the multileader block?  See the attached screen shot.

[#2]

I just quickly repeated what I think you did, and it works fine here in an MLEADER. 

The block is on the right, and the MLEADER on the left.

[#3]

The problem has something to with going to a layout.  The multileader looks fine in the model tab, but in a layout, both in paperspace and model space the hatch changes color to solid black.  It also has to do with the plot styles because when I turn off display plot styles, the colors are fine on the screen.  I tried selecting one that I am sure plots color, the none, and the default acad.ctb and all of them show up black on the screen.  I tried printing it to PDF, and it prints in color, so I have a bit of a workaround, but I would like to see what I am working with.  Any thoughts?

[#4]

What if you use a truecolor instead of ACI color 30?

It sounds like your STB/CTB is mapping color 30 to a black "pen".

Truecolors are not affected by plot styles.

[#5]

True colors didn't work.  It is an issue with display, and the multileader uses the block without any modifications, so I don't understand why the block is fine but the multileader isn't.  If it were a problem with the CTB files, I would expect the problem to affect the block and the multileaders, and the plots.  The problem is only with multileaders in a layout tab on the screen.

I guess I have found a bug.  Thanks for your help.\

Happy New Year!

[#6]

Have you tried editing the block and explicitly sending the hatch to the back? Making the block dynamic with the leader in it may also avert the display issue?