Grey out xrefs in plotting

[Anonymous]

I am trying to grey out the x-refs in my drawing. I believe that there is a fade control tool under options>display. This tool works for me, but only when I am viewing the drawing on the screen. When I print this drawing, the drawings prints in its usual thickness and is not grayed out. How can I print this drawing with xrefs grayed out? Can you please help me? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

If you want them to show as transparent, you can alter the transparency of the xref-layers in the layer manager (this will only work correctly if all the objects in the xref have transparency set to "by layer")

When you print, you will need to tick the box "plot object transparency"

Note that if you are plotting as pdfs, this might change how the pdfs look as it will plot them as raster pdfs not vector (that's how it shows the transparency)

If you want them to appear faded/a different colour, then you can alter the colours of the xref layers in a similar way - you will need to set VISRETAIN to 1 to keep these colours when you reload the xref.

[adrian.pesqueira]

Yes, awesome, finally got it, it is a combination of VISRETAIN:0 and XREFOVERRIDE:1 then change the color of all XREF layres in Layers, no need to change anything in the original drawing.