topic Re: coordinates background turn off? in AutoCAD Forum

coordinates background turn off?

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:26:53 GMT

Hey all, i set some contraindicates on a master plan yesterday but the contractor wants the coordinates background turned off. how do i do this?

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:38:41 GMT

Hi,

from the JPG it's hard to say what you have as objecttype. So I can only guess:

Try to turn off FIELDDISPLAY (>>>details<<<)

If I'm correct with that then please understand that this grey background is not printed, it's just as information on the display to know that are fields! If you print to PDF you won't see that background.

If that does not help then please upload the dwg-file so we can look into that.

- alfred -

Re: coordinates background turn off?

S.Faris — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:40:19 GMT

To turn off the background of fields

On the command line, enter FieldDisplay
When prompted for a new value, enter 0

Summary of the varuable

Value	Description
0	Fields are displayed with no background
1	Fields are displayed with a gray background

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:11:05 GMT

Actually i need to add a white mask that will be printed ?

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:16:06 GMT

Hi,

>> Actually i need to add a white mask that will be printed ?

If you want to make the background (behind the text) invisible, then you might need a mask, yes.

If your question is how you do that I can only repeat ... without the dwg-file we don't know what you have (block with attributes, leader, mtext, ...?), if we know that we can give valid suggestions.

For MTEXT objects (and objects based on that like multiline attributes) you can select the object and activate the masking.

- alfred -

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:20:02 GMT

Yeah So the grey bit behond the numbers is grey and will not be printed but what i have been asked to do is to change the grey to a white that will be printed to show the cords to the contractor more easily

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:26:12 GMT

Hi,

>> So the grey bit behond the numbers is grey and will not be printed

In case these objects are FIELD's ... then yes, correct.

>> change the grey to a white that will be printed to show the

>> cords to the contractor more easily

You are asking for "which tool do I need to open a part", but you don't show which type of screws you had used to close it. As long as we don't know which type of objects you have we can't describe which tool to use!

The suggestion with MTEXT did not work? Then please upload a dwg-file with at least one of these objects you want us to help you how to add a printable white background.

- alfred -

Re: coordinates background turn off?

S.Faris — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:07:55 GMT

If you are using a attribute inorder to graphically represent the coordinates in your drawing, You have only 2 choice

Grey Color (FIELDDISPLAY-1)
No Background (FIELDDISPLAY-0)

On the other hand if you are using a text inside a dynamic block, there is a workaround to achieve what you need

turn off the field display (FIELDDISPLAY-0) and use background mask from the properties of text
but in this case the coordinates are pulled from an object which is already inside the blockeditor, so it is tricky to make it work in the drawing space. I've made a sample file of what you are asking for(attached).

Try to edit that and learn for yourself what is happening inside the block and why.(But feel free to ask any doubt, if you lost 🙂 )

Re: coordinates background turn off?

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:47:25 GMT

I've accepted your solution based on the effort you put in but i ended up getting in trouble for downloading your file to the works hard drive, never mind than you have a great day.

Re: coordinates background turn off?

S.Faris — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:51:51 GMT

The file I uploaded was just for you to get an idea of how it can be done. It was never meant to be used in another file.

You too have a great day 👍