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Printing Transparency in Carlson Survey IntelliCAD 2016

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(@hillsidesurveyor)
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Hi all,

I have been searching for a solution to this, but can't seem to find anything.

I have some solid hatching in my survey drawing and am able to give it a 80% transparency in CAD so that the underlying objects can be seen, but when I go to print the solid hatching prints dark with no transparency. I have tried checking all of the options available in the print options, but nothing seems to work.

Does anyone know how to print the hatching transparency?

Thanks in advance.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 9:15 am
john-giles
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Don't know about carlson but in autocad you have a display order'. Just send the solid hatching to the back. Also may be a pen issue. Change pen color to a lighter color. Don't know if you have all pens set to black. That can happen also.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 9:36 am
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Some printers do not support the transparency commands. We have a xerox that will only print 1" of the page if transparency is turned on.

I am forced to use the DWG to PDF driver then print from Adobe in order to utilize transparency. Crazy frustrating!

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 9:40 am
(@hillsidesurveyor)
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I found the "Printtransparency" command and turned it to on, but it still doesn't work. I also tried to export to a PDF and the PDF also shows up pitch black.
I do have all of the pens set to black and have it on the lightest setting I use. When using Civil 3D there was a setting in the print menu on whether or not to print transparency, but there doesn't seem to be anything in IntelliCAD.

I also have tried the draworder command with no success.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 9:46 am
(@nw-staker)
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Have you tried changing the color from black to something else. I know ours seem to work like that.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 10:03 am

(@hillsidesurveyor)
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Jackpot

I changed the color from black to the object color and now it displays transparent.

Thank you very much, don't know what I would do without this board.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 10:11 am
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"Thank you very much, don't know what I would do without this board."

Let's hope you (we) never have to find out !!

T.W.

 
Posted : September 2, 2016 1:06 pm