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AutoCAD white Fills.. Again !

Anonymous
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So the deal is .. in ArchiCAD I use in many cases- Bring to front, push back commands " specially in stairs to show them properly, and some cases of extending slabs to hide below element " . which means basically that I am forcing a white fill " background of fill" over an element which works perfectly in ArchiCAD , exporting to PDF .

Now the issue comes when I export to AutoCAD. as many prefer , if we select an option to make all background fills as transparent " the MVO setting" this works good for everything except the elements that are supposed to be hidden under other elements " for example numbers of below stair that I just want part of ". so I used to convert all the white backgrounds as separate fills option and that goes into 3 fills " Cover , Cut and Draft" and all I have to do is to setup that pen "Screening" in Autocad to 1 . and everything works perfect.

But I am trying to avoid the last step. because yes in my office I can setup my pen assignment . but I am trying to avoid explaining that to the contractors every time I pass them those drawings.

Any Ideas ? " the funny bit is that some elements are converted as a wipeout and those work fine ... but I don't know how can I apply that to those background fills"

Thank you.
2 REPLIES 2
TMA_80
Enthusiast
HI Whatever,

I'm really intrested to know how did you manage to solve this issue (if you did ) ?

thanks
AC12_27 |Win11_64bit|
sinceV6
Advocate
Hi whatever.
AFAIK, wipeouts are created when you use "window background" as the color for background fills (not "transparent"). You could use that if you think wipeouts will solve your problems; but we've seen cad files become "unworkable" beacuse of wipeouts. Is an autoCAD problem. It can handle just a bunch of wipeouts, so use'em carefully.
We've actually tried to find a way NOT to use "window background".
Oh... and explaining "wipeouts" to contractors hard also. Most autoCAD users don't even know what wipeouts are. If you can setup pen assigments in your office for your exported CAD drawings, why can't you give them the .ctb or style file along with the CADs?
Best regards.