cREATING A WHITE RECTANGLE IN PAPER SPACE

[Anonymous]

I need to draw a white rectangle in paper space in order to cover something up which I pasted from another document. The issue is thath when I choose the white or black colour it displays that colout as black on the print.

[dbroad]

What did you paste?

Depending on the answer to that, you could clip it instead of mask it.  You can also should be able to use a wipeout.  To draw a fillled solid rectangle, you could create a rectangle and then hatch it solid or use the solid command.  The color you probably need is 255.  The plotstyle must plot it in white (or in invisible ink?).

[pendean]

Color 7 is monochrome 'black', it only displays as white if you have a black background. There is no white ink cartridge in your printer.

Explore using color 255 (and set your plot style table to correctly have this as no-color, since your paper is white), or true color 255,255,255.

Or upgrade your workflow and use WIPEOUT to cover up items in your file: you can set it to match the background color or the colors I noted above.

[alison5YAQH]

I know I'm literally 10 years too late but I googled this error and figured it out on my own.

In paper space, I created a new layer (might not have to) and drew a box on top of what I wanted to hide.

Then filled it in with a solid hatch.

This will automatically be solid black.

Double-click the box/fill area to open the 'Hatch Edit' window.

Change 'Hatch Color' by going to select color > true color > RGB mode > make all values "255" > press 'okay' > press 'okay' again to exit window

It should already show as a solid white box.

My black frame was showing so I selected it and moved it to a hidden layer.

PLOT as you would and none the wiser!