See through hatches

I need to hatch of portion of a imported raster image and i need the image to show through the hatch. How is this done?

Draworder for the image, send to back.

Hope this works for you in 2010, works for me in '05 and/or '07.

Welcome to the forums! Where are you posting from?

Draworder for the image, send to back.

 

Hope this works for you in 2010, works for me in '05 and/or '07.

 

Welcome to the forums! Where are you posting from?

I tried sending it to the back but that just makes it not show at all.

I am posting from Raleigh, NC

I think you might have some luck with using a striped hatch pattern and just setting the scale to be very small, to cover 50% of the image. I don't think AutoCAD can do transparent hatches, but you might be able to trick the eye into making it look transparent. Play around with your scaling and see what looks good. I use the ISO-Dot patterns for this type of thing on Arial photographs, and that usually is enough to highlight the area you want hatched while maintaining the visibility of the image beneath it. Again, play with your scaling to see what looks good to you.

Another option might be to edit the image itself. If you use Photoshop (or equivalent) you could just do a new layer, highlight the area you want to hatch, then do a fill/paint bucket on the selection to completely cover the area. Then set that new layer to 50% transparency, and use that image as your reference in AutoCAD.

Still the one request that I have wanted in AutoCAD for years. DoubleCAD can do it AutoDesk, why not you? :wink:

I just looked around in Map and Raster Design and I don't think it's possible. It would be a nice feature to have.

I, too, am posting from Raleigh. :-)

I have worked around this sort of issue by using the DOT hatch pattern. Play around with the hatch scale to get it just right. I think I even had to use a screened layer color as well.