Please Help - problems with filled regions

[ebrown3876]

good morning. i have found a problem with filled regions, or maybe this is an on-going problem ment to be addressed from autodesk. bottom line, the filled region is hiding lines. when drawing the region i am using invisible lines and it looks good before i plot. when i plot the drawing the invisible lines sit ontop of either wall lines or footing lines and it somehow masks those lines. i have utilized the arrange controls to send all filled regions the the back however, this is not working. i am attaching a file with two views, #1 is of the detail view itself before being plotted and #2 the plotted view. as you can see i have circled some of the areas where the filled region lines sit ontop of my footing or wall lines. when this is plotted, these lines are erased, (using vector prcessing) or they are very thin (using raster processing). does anyone have any work-arounds or have a solution to this problem. thank you for your help in advance.

eric brown

[rosskirby]

If the slab, footing and foundation in that view are part of your model, then any filled region you draw over the top of it is going to override/mask the intersecting part of the model.

You might want to select the individual lines of the filled region that overlap with the model and make them the same lineweight (thin, wide, etc.) as the model object that they overlap, rather than leave them as invisible lines. Not all boundaries of a filled region have to be the same lineweight/linetype, just in case you didn't already know.

If, however, the slab, footing and foundation are another filled region(s), then sending the invisible-boundaried region to back should work.

[ebrown3876]

thank you for your reply. um, i had a brain-f-a-r-t for a few seconds there and quickly figured it out. yes, i changed the lines that were overlapping my model to the same thickness and left the rest of them, that i didn't want to see, invisible. Good Grief.... again, thank you for your time and your reply.

[rosskirby]

Hey, it's that kind of day.

Glad you got it figured out.