topic Re: xref transparency plotting in AutoCAD Forum

xref transparency plotting

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:02:14 GMT

I am trying to get the XREF's on my drawings to plot lighter. I put them in an XREF layer and set the trans to 80% but that does not work. Any help would be great!

Re: xref transparency plotting

pendean — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:06:47 GMT

Your plot style table is probably overriding those settings: post your PLOT command pop-up screenshot and let's see what you are using.

Re: xref transparency plotting

imadHabash — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:11:27 GMT

Hi,

tick Plot transparency option from Plot dialog.

Regards,

Re: xref transparency plotting

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:25:12 GMT

Here is a screen shot of the plot pop up

Re: xref transparency plotting

imadHabash — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:50:20 GMT

Hi,

if your xref have a lot of layers ... then to get your xref more lighter you have to do the follow :

From Layout model prepare your VP and pick inside it .
Type Layer command.
start horizontal scrolling till you see VP Color / VP Transparency.
either you change the color or transparency for the xref layers (you can select them easily from filters at the dialog beginning).
all what you do it here in the Layout will NOT effect your Model space elements.

Regards,

Re: xref transparency plotting

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:39:39 GMT

Hi,

Mine is a bit more complex question. I have a 3D Xref model attached wich of course hiddens some parts of the AS model. Well, when creating GA drawings, i don´t want the Xref to hide anything at all and just be shown as secondary lines. Is this possible at all?. So far the only way i found to do this is unload the Xref and updating the drawing.

Thanks in advance.