hatching around dimensions and other objects

[KoTa04]

Hello all,

I have this issue where I have stone right below some framing and other objects. I use a hatch to fill in the square of stone. When I use the hatch, I send it to the back of the drawing order, but it is right below a bunch of my dimensions. These dimensions become hard to see. I could have sworn that I once saw my hatches leave some extra room around the dimensions. Is there a way to make them easier to see? I guess the ugly solution I have right now is to put small boxes around anything within the hatch to leave some room.

Thanks,

[SLW210]

Either through properties or DimStyles set Text Fill Color to Background.

[KoTa04]

Genius! Thank you very much!

[SLW210]

You are welcome!!

[Tyke]

You can also select the dimensions when selecting the object with the island mode set to outer, or when selecting the point.

[KoTa04]

I'm unable to "publish" my layouts to a pdf when setting my rotated dimensions text fill colour "background", I get the error message: "Your request could not be completed due to an unexpected problem. Turn off background plotting and try to plot again." Is this common? Is there a work-around?

[SLW210]

Did you turn off background plotting?

[KoTa04]

I didn't, it works now. Thank you.
Exactly what is background plotting? and what happens when I uncheck it?