Usually I'll hatch buildings on surveys. Got one this time though where I would rather lightly shade the buildings as hatching just puts too many lines on the drawing and makes it hard for even me to know what's what.
I tried Hatching with a solid pattern, but that just prints out solid black and you can't read any text within the building footprint.
Any help would be appreciated. Prints will be in black & white.
Thanks
Using AutoCAD 2007. Thanks.
I don't use LDD much anymore but normally you can change the plot style in that layer to a gray 40% or something like that.
If that doesn't work, try changing that specific layer color under the layer manager. In the "select color" window and under the "true color" tab you can select a gray color and see if that works.
Hatching with a solid is the way I do it. Put it on its only layer and/or color depends on your plots method. Make that layer/color plot with 40% shading. Befor plotting use "display order" command and sent the hatching to the back, this with allow all objects, text, lines, ect. under the hatch to be seen and plotted.
If you are plotting with pen settings not layer setting like I do. All you need to do is put in on a color you have nothing else on. Then under your plot setting, go into your pen settings and change that color to plot black or pen 7, and set the shading to 40%. After that if you want it darker up to percentage, like wise lighter would adjust downward to like 20%.
Hope this helps.
> I don't use LDD much anymore but normally you can change the plot style in that layer to a gray 40% or something like that.
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> If that doesn't work, try changing that specific layer color under the layer manager. In the "select color" window and under the "true color" tab you can select a gray color and see if that works.
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I tried the second option first and that seems to do what I want. Thanks!
I was just informed by one of our CAD guys that we have a particular color already set up for plotting with 50% shading. :-$
My question is if we had that then why do we never use it?
Thanks to all here and my office staff, I am now "with it" (at least when trying to shade in AutoCAD).
🙂