Wipeout / Textmask refusing to work in PS

[Buggsy]

Hi ya all,

 

With all the info that is on this site, I can't seem to find the answer to my problem.

 

I've been working with this drawing that has 10 PS tabs. The wipeout command & textmask command works in most of the PS ports, but some of the PS ports the background shows through the mask/wipeout.

 

The drawing is in MS and all the Title/Borders/Dims/Text is in PS.

 

Can someone lend me some help to get my wipeouts & textmasking to work in all PS ports?

[SLW210]

Do you have the wipeouts on layers that are frozen in the viewport?

[Buggsy]

There are no frozen/locked/turned off layers in any of the PS ports or MS.

Viewports were created or put on the Defpoints layer so they don't print the PS outline.

When using textmask, textmask defaults to putting mask on current layer, so all mask go to text or dim layer.

[SLW210]

Why do you have your viewports on Defpoints layer? I recommend creating a layer (Viewports is a good name) and setting it NoPlot.

[Buggsy]

Creating an extra layer is not needed when Defpoints does what I need it to do. Hide the viewport outline.

Can you explain why you have narrowed your thought on my layer usage when textmask defaults to current layer that I'm on (such as text layer)?

[SLW210]

Using Defpoints layer for anything is bad form and not recommended. Do a search on CADTutor or anyother related site and you will see some of the problems associated. Check out this thread for starters http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?54869

 

Not saying that is your problem. I will look into it some more later if you like. Try doing some searching in the mean time.

[CyberAngel]

When I see this behavior, I think first of draw order. Try bringing the text to the front.

[Buggsy]

Ok, I believe ya all and will Standardize this in the future. I have changed all viewports to a viewport layer and still the textmask / wipeouts do not mask in some of my viewports, while most of my viewports, the textmask / wipeouts do work.

[Buggsy]

Already tried this (DO) with no results. I've even unmasked everything, purgedall, saved, closed, and reopened to do texrmask and still doesn't work in just 2 of the 10 view ports.

[SLW210]

Are all of the viewports in 1 layout tab? Try to compare the properties of a working viewport and a non-working viewport. Are the wipeouts in Model or Paper?

[Buggsy]

There are 10 PS tabs. Most have single Viewports but a couple tabs have multiple viewports.

[SLW210]

Maybe I will have more time tomorrow, I am having difficulty recreating your problem.

[Glen1980]

1. Silly question, but the text masks that aren't working are they in all of the viewports? If it only appears in one viewport maybe the mtext box has been dragged smaller than the text, I get this sometimes when people have formatted their own paragraphs you can't tell the box has changed size. When I get this problem the MText box has no physical size and as the background mask is dependent on the mtext box not the text inside there is no background. I have to open the mtext command and drag the rulers about to get the bg mask to appear.

2. Are your wipeouts quadrangles? I have found our printer won't do polygon wipeouts even though they appear fine in the viewports.

[Dastardley]

I have the same problem. We use 2010 & 2011 and this only happens on some drawings in the set.

The Viewport is on VP Layer (ON & THAWED)

Draw order hasn't helped

Creating new MText in the drawing also hasn't helped but if i choose the colour fill it works.

[SLW210]

Could you post the file and/or some screen shots?

[Buggsy]

Could you explain futher on this colour fill?

 

How do you choose colour fill?

[nestly]

Background Mask

[choopyguz]

Hi all new here,

I have found with wipeouts that some printers do not like them, especially from PDF's that are scaled down, the way I get around this is to do a pline around the object and put a solid hatch with a colour of 255 (white) behind the object, and the same with background mask use colur 255.