block table with hidden cell borders.

[mid-awe]

Hi all,

I have somehow hidden the cell borders on my block table. That is awesome, but unfortunately I cannot reproduce it. I have searched everywhere for any info but I cannot find anything beyond the obvious customization tools.

I have attached my anomalous DWG in hope that someone here can help me uncover the secret. It would seem that I am not the only one to want the level of "hidden" found in the attached file.

I know that this is a very intelligent group here; please help.

Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions.

[Ranjit_Singh]

Maybe like this.

[mid-awe]

That looks like it works, but infact I cannot see what it is that you click on at the last while your cursor moves to the bottom below the area viewable within your graphic. What did you click to make all the borders disappear?

The table as it appears in the DWG I shared, is how I need the final result to be.

Thank you.

[pbejse]

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@mid-awe wrote:

That looks like it works, but infact I cannot see what it is that you click on at the last while your cursor moves to the bottom below the area viewable within your graphic. What did you click to make all the borders disappear?

The table as it appears in the DWG I shared, is how I need the final result to be.

Thank you.

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All you want is to know how you manage to make the borders disappear?

Select your table

When the columns (A - C)  and row ( 1 - 6 ) appear, click on the box above 1 and left side of A

The colour would be different from the rest.

Right click on that, You will see borders on the menu

Click No Borders...

[mid-awe]

Thanks for the reply, i have been very busy and unable to check.

I do know how to set the table to no borders. That only effects the print, I believe. I am hoping to learn how to hide the table borders in the view. I understand how my question could be misunderstood.

Whenever I make a table I can hide all the borders that I don't want to print, but in my example DWG the table borders are not visible in the view nor the print.

Hopefully that makes sense. I considered if it is a sysvar, but without having any idea where to look, it could take all day to find.

Thank you again for the reply.

[pbejse · Accepted solution]

I guess your confusing gridlines with borders, turned on / thaw defpoints if you want to "see" the gridlines

[mid-awe]

certainly confused

Thank you very much. I will try it out in the morning.

[scot-65]

There are at least two methods for not showing the "grid" lines.

The first is editing the table definition and turning off the grid.
Command TABLESTYLE and select the "Modify..." button and find
the "Borders" tab. When the layer the table is located on is frozen,
these "No Borders" will still show up in the editor. BINGO, huh?

The second method involves assigning the borders to a color that
does not print (CTB method). Open up the pen table and select
a color to use. "Grayscale" to ON and "Screening" to 0%. While
you are at it, set the layer called Defpoints to this same color.
It is a visual cue that the color will not print. Now, when the layer
that the table is located on is frozen, the borders will no longer
show in the editor.

Possibly a third method, which will bypass the CTB route -
Assign the borders to color 255?

???

[mid-awe]

Thank you for the information. 

I generate my tables through lisp and set the cell visibility with:

(VLA-SetCellGridVisibility TblObj ROWCNT 0 acBottomMask :VLAX-False)
(VLA-SetCellGridVisibility TblObj ROWCNT 0 acLeftMask :VLAX-False)
(VLA-SetCellGridVisibility TblObj ROWCNT 0 acRightMask :VLAX-False)
(VLA-SetCellGridVisibility TblObj ROWCNT 0 acTopMask :VLAX-False)

This may not be the simplest method.