Masking grid lines

[CarlaG]

Hi everyone,

I have created a generic annotation mask with border to sit behind the text blocks (because the text background mask does not fill the border... but that's another gripe) and it successfully masked everything below it, even the gridlines. Beautiful - all the text was clear and easily read.

BUT now I reopen my project and something has changed so that the gridlines are on top of all my text. In every view.

What happened?? How do I undo this without going through the whole project and cutting / pasting all my text back in??? And what's to say it won't happen again?

Thanks

[JacobDSimpson]

Hi there. 

I'm not sure what could cause that, but if you want your text to appear over your grids I would go into VG and select the halftone option for gridlines. 

Attached image of halftone grids in a project I'm currently working on.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Jacob

[ToanDN]

You views aren't set to wireframe visual style, are they?  Anyways, edit the mask family and maybe recreate the masking region, or edit its boundary a bit, and reload see if it fixes the issue.

[Archigrafix_Norge]

Do you have a family with a mask on top of gridlines? You only use that on certain views? If you need to make your gridlines nearly invisible i would recommend to use a linestyle with dots very spaced, and make that white.

[ToanDN]

By the way, having a separate masking under the text sounds like a strange approach. Do you need to do it for every text? I would create a generic annotation family with a mask and label for special boxed text. For typical text notes without a border, just make them opaque.

[CarlaG]

Thanks, that (should have thought of it myself!) has helped, and I can probably live with it now.

I still don't understand why they were masked for a while then reverted to being in front again though!

To the other suggestions - thanks, too, but editing the family didn't change anything, the gridlines stayed in front.

My notes are unusual in this project, as blocks of text with dot-points. I tried putting the text as a label in the annotation family but the dot-points weren't available in a label. 

Also just a simple text object set to opaque with a border looks odd as it doesn't mask the entire box, just behind the text itself... unless I've missed something here??

Thanks again