Line Fade Out

[angusstevenson123]

Hi,

Is there a way in Auto-CAD to fade out a line.

That is - a line is 100 percent visible - but then it slowly fades to nothing.

I am drawing some floor boards - and the boards need to fade out at the top of the drawing.

Thankyou,

Angus

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

With a line? Not that I know of.

You can more or less fake this effect by using a really thin HATCH object,using a gradient fill, as shown here.

[imadHabash]

Hi,

you can use TRANSPARENCY option either from Layer Manger or from Properties. 

if do you want to notice that while you're working make sure that TRANSPARENCYDISPLAY is (1).

 

[rkmcswain]

imadhabash wrote:

you can use TRANSPARENCY option either from Layer Manger or from Properties. 

How is that going to provide a fade effect from one end of a line to another? Thanks.

[angusstevenson123]

Thanks for your input - appreciate it

[angusstevenson123]

For the line fade out - thin hatch with a gradient fill..........

Would you mind expanding on this? Go into a step by step?

I thought I had it in the bag - but when playing with hatch/ gradient - I couldn't quite get the desired effect of the hatch fading.

Thankyou

[rkmcswain]

angusstevenson123 wrote:

Would you mind expanding on this? Go into a step by step?

Seemed worthy of a new post. See if this helps.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@angusstevenson123 wrote:

For the line fade out - thin hatch with a gradient fill..........

Would you mind expanding on this? Go into a step by step?

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Make some long and very thin closed-Polyline Rectangles.  Hatch them with a gradient [you should be able to figure out the direction of gradation, etc., by trial if it's not obvious within the Hatch controls] by object selection, not picking inside areas [since those areas will be so narrow as to be difficult to pick in].  Erase the rectangles, or put them on a Layer you can turn off, or something.  Is that enough?