AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Isometric Text Background Masking

[w.shafer]

Can anyone out there tell me how to stop the ismetric maker from attaching a background mask to certain annotations such as the line number, the the cut piece id, the pipe segment endpoint  location text, and other annotation?  I am at a loss as to how to either turn off the background mask function or change the background mask color.

[quentin.contreras]

Have you recently made any changes to your Iso Style? Is this happening within just your current project? If you start a brand new Plant 3D project does the same masking still occur?

If possible could you attached some screen captures of what you are seeing with the masking.

[w.shafer]

Quentin,

Thanks for jumping on this so quickly!  I did in fact make changes to our Iso Style.  I am attempting to adapt our D-size border to the Isometric format, and to do so, I created a new iso style.  This worked quite well as evidenced by Attachment 1, w/e of the problem of block masking certain text.

As a test, I prepared another iso using the 'out-of-the-box' un-changed Final Ansi-B iso style, Attachment 2, and noted that almost all of the m-text annotations have the block masking applied.

I have not started a new Plant 3D project as yet, but could do so perhaps this afternoon.  I will report the results back to you later.  Also, I will make a check of other projects to see if this has happened.

[w.shafer]

To add further to this discussion, yesterday I created a new project using our project template.   I then created a quick iso and it aldo had the background masking of all the mtext, including dimensions surprisingly.   I achieved the same results when creating iso's in other projects.  Thinking that it was our project template causing the problem, I created another new test project but did not use the template, just straight out of the box, and the iso that I created from this project (Attachment 3) contained the mtext mask also.

Needless to say, I am stumped and frustrated.

Thanks for  your help so far tho,

Warren

[eadkins73]

On my projsymbolstyle.dwg I have a wipeout layer and the color is set to 255,255,255.  From what I have been told this is the only color that a box doesn't appear for the wipeout.  Having said that, in my projects all the annotation blocks for the isos have the wipeout set to layer zero.  But you can edit those blocks to remove the wipeout.  They are in the IsoSymbolStyles.dwg and I believe most of the blocks start with "Anno...".  I probably wouldn't recomment removing the wipeout though.

[jabowabo]

The mask for dimensions can be eliminated by changing the 'Fill Color' to 'none' in the template dimension style.

[w.shafer]

jabowabo - I couldn't find where to change "the 'Fill Color' to 'none' in the template dimension style."

I think this might be a shot in the right direction but that still would leave the remaining mtext on the sheet with the background mask.

Thank you for the help, it is appreciated!

[jabowabo]

 - Open the iso template (iso.dwt)

 - use command 'DIMSTYLE'

 - select style to modify

 - select 'Text' tab

 - change 'Fill color' to 'none'

I'm not sure where the setting is for the mtext masking. As a workaround you could write a lisp command to remove it after the iso is dropped.