I have been using background masking in Mtext to cover up the mechanical piping in our drawings. It works fine in AutoCAD, but we convert the drawing to pdf and then send the pdf to the printer to make prints. Now
the background masking is not working. You get a line going through the text.
I design cushions for airplane seats and am trying to display a leather cover on the cushions with pull lines for piping detailing. etc. I am also wondering if a leather material style is availble for DL online.
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The Background Masks are either too narrow or too wide on the copied items.
Simple LISP routine to enable the background mask of a single mtext object using dxf codes?
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I tried the 'boundary' command but when it asks to 'Pick Points' and I click inside the solid, it always gives the error 'Valid hatch boundary not found'.
What am I missing here?
Why is this happening?
The dwg was fine, then it crashed while changing from modle space to paper space...
When i recovered the dwg, EVERY MTEXT I try to edit becomes rotated vertically and stays that way when i close the edit box...
I do not recall hitting any buttons or making any keystrokes without my knowing...
Is there a way to get my text back to Horizontal and stay that way?
I tried setting the MTEXTFIXED to: 0, 1 & 2.
NONE of these options changed anything.
I NEED to have this fixed. more importantly, i need to know why this is happening sop that i can take steps to prevent this happening in the future...
I am currently working with the latest CAD available.
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The video card has the latest driver.
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I am currently having a problem which (looks like) i have a background mask that will not delete even tho there isn't any text there. i cant select this or delete it.
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That's a print screen of one of the areas that's effected.
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background Masking (for PS7),
cutting out object from its background.. Most tutorial I've browsed just uncomfortable, misty, poorly illustrated or unwarrantedly complicated and confused.. Good tutorial must be detailed, with exact amplification where every element located.
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; error: no function definition: VLAX-ENAME->VLA-OBJECT
Why does this not work in 2012? How to get it to work?
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