MAstructural Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I've been plotting hatches for quite awhile now - using various transparencies - and having great results without incident. My latest plots, however, are in a red/pinkish color and I cannot figure out why. The only thing that may have changed is that I allowed an autodesk update (I'm on AutoCad LT 2012) and I believe the issue began after that happened but I am not certain of this. I've checked the layer colors and everything seems fine. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I doubt that an update changed your line colors. Did you check to see if the layer in question had a True Color assigned versus an Index Color? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAstructural Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 ReMark - thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what these are. I looked in the layer manager but did not see any reference to these. My hatch is layer zero and it is assigned the color white. Any info about how to check true and index would be helpful and may be where the problem is lurking. I just cannot understand why this aspect suddenly changed when I'm doing everything the same way as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAstructural Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Re: the hatch issue, I tried plotting with the "plot transparency" box un-ticked and the plot was monochrome as it was supposed to be so it appears that "transparency" may be part of the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 The default setting in AutoCAD is to use an Index color. The other two options are True color and Color Book. You don't see these options in the Layer Manager per se; they are seen when the user clicks on the layer color and brings up the Select Color dialog window. This is something you should be familiar with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YZ Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Does it display as red on the Plot Preview? And is it every printer? Or one in particular? What if you export to PDF, does it still happen then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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