Text box with background mask showing up as white block in plot preview

[Anonymous]

Hello,

When I preview a plot in Civil3D 2018, any text that has a background mask is showing up as a solid white box in the plot preview.  When I change the FILLMODE from 1 to 0, the text shows up on plot preview, but the background mask no longer works.  I have attached a file with an example.  

Any text without a background mask shows up fine in the plot preview. 

Any ideas on what may be causing this??

Thanks,

Derek

[cwr-pae]

With out the plot styles you use and the xref I can't really tell what is going on. But, I do see you have plot with transparency set to off, the built-in text masks need that be set to on for them to have effect. After turning on the transparency plot you can set fillmode 1 again.

[Anonymous]

I turned the plot transparency to ON and set fillmode back to 1.  The text masks are set to on.  There are a couple that are set to off, and those ones show up just fine in plot preview, which is what leads me to believe it has something to do with the background mask.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks, 

Derek

[timothy.regello]

Try changing the color of the font in the text box to white.  I changed my font color from 255 to white and that fixed the text masking problem when previewing (and plotting as a PDF).

[jmola]

i am having the same issue in civil3d 2018.   did you ever figure this out?

thanks

[jmola]

did you ever figure this out?  its been driving me nuts.  i did load civil3d 2018 as autocad 2018, and it works properly.  has to be some setting in the civil3d.

[xenonk2828]

I recently encountered this issue as well.

Give this a try:

1) Go to OPTIONS, then the DISPLAY tab.

2) Click on the COLORS button to bring up the DRAWING WINDOW COLORS dialog box.

3) In the CONTEXT box, select "PLOT PREVIEW".  On the INTERFACE ELEMENT, select "UNIFORM BACKGROUND" and set the color to WHITE, then APPLY & CLOSE.

4) Do a REGENALL on your drawing and then proceed with a PLOT, and do a PLOT PREVIEW.

Somehow on my end, this fixed it.  I guess for the background mask setting for the MTEXT where it says "use drawing background color" it is dependent on this matter to look for white to actually plot clear, and any other color will treat the color to plot black or the forced color in that window.  Give it a shot and let me know if that works for you.  

[jmola]

BINGO,  Thank you.  it maybe trivial, but it was driving me nuts.

[zalant]

The blanking out of the masked text in Plot Preview has to do with the color for the Plot Preview > Uniform Background color, as noted above. The good news is that, although the mask dominates in the preview, the actual (text) output should come out OK.

Getting the Plot Preview to not blank out the text:

If any one of the three RGB values for the Plot Preview > Uniform Background color is above 128, there is no problem. This also applies to index colors, as they all have equivalent RGB values, even when they're not displayed that way. For example, index Color 8 (grey) has the equivalent RGB value 128,128,128. If all three of the RGB values are 128 or below, the mask will wipe out the text in the preview. It will, however, plot out correctly, with the background mask box being white.

An alternate method would be to set the background mask's color to be whatever is set for the background color in the drawing area, instead of checking the box for 'Use drawing background color'.  The plot preview would then show correctly, without wiping out the masked text. The downside of this method is that the background mask box would then actually plot out in whatever that color is, instead of white.

[yosephk]

Thank you. It solved my text mask plot preview issue.