Use the PROPERTIES palette to change the transparency of all the selected hatch patterns to a transparency of 60 for example. In this case use the FILTER command to select all hatch patterns in the drawing. You might be faced with other objects that should not be faded on the same layer as the hatch pattern. Obviously you can set the TRANSPARENCY in the Layer Properties. How to modify existing drawings that need all their hatch patterns modified with a transparency settings. I prefer to use a transparency just for the convenience of not sending a custom plot style table with the drawing and thus burdening the recipient with the task of managing another custom plot style that may conflict with another plot style with the same name having different settings. The NCS advocates the use of an unmodified plot style table to simplify the sharing of drawings by eliminating the need to send a custom plot style table with the drawing. If you can tolerate the darker areas where vectors overlap the transparency technique frees you from customizing the plot style table. The areas of vector overlap appear uniformly faded, not darker. Now compare the same file below using a screening of 40 for color 253 in the plot style. When you have a hatch pattern that displays intersecting vectors the overlapping vectors will display darker when a transparency is set.Ībove, the 3 vectors in the hatch on the right (swamp) display darker at their intersection. In plot preview using the monochrome.ctb the transparency provides the intended effect.Īn argument for screening with plot style tables.

In a layout the color 253 and the color white with a transparency 55 look the same. Time to change that practice and use a transparency setting that will produce the fading effect when plotting with a monochrome.ctb plot style table. Assigning color 253 was once a practice for fading objects.

Now users need to adapt to those practices. The primary benefit is to reduce the need for plot style tables down to simply changing color to black and white.

NCS adopted the practice of applying color, lineweight, and linetype to the layer instead of using the plot style table to make those effects when plotting. CAD Standards change when a more efficient workflow is developed.

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