[Cadologist]

Does anyone know a solution to this problem, when I export a drawing to AutoCAD, any text that was masked in C3D (possibly through a style or however) has the mask overwrite the text, ending up with big soild filled boxes where the text shows (when plotting) through AutoCAD (screen view is fine).

Basically the text mask backgrounds are dominant, ie: draworder doesn't do a single thing and the only way to fix it so far that I know of is to manually go in, delete all the masks, then remask all the text, real PITA when your dealing with extensive networks of alignments (roadway designs).

Any ideas?

[Cadologist]

Just to add, the text masks when converted to AutoCAD are actually 'SOLID HATCH' with the color 0,0,0 on the same layer as the text, which sucks. Draworder doesn't effect it at all, looks good on the screen, prints with the hatch covering the text.

[Cadologist]

Found some information but still 'sucks'....... see below.

Problem #2: Object Coloring/Text Hatches
When Civil 3D exports labeled contours or certain pipe labels, it creates a hatch behind the text, and colors that hatch whatever your background color is. If your model space is anything but white, the hatch will show up in your plots, often as a filled black rectangle. So you need an quick way to fix that. Again, there are two possible solutions:

Change the hatch to white (255,255,255). You can select everything in your drawing and then select “hatch” from the Properties window drop-down box, then adjust the color from there. If you have other hatches in your drawing, you may want to isolate the layer(s) that the text hatches are on using LAYISO.

You can delete all of the hatches and replace them with background masks. Again, you might want to isolate the relevant layers before doing this. Use the Properties window drop-down to select all MText entities. Once you have selected only MText that you want to mask (using Shift-selections to remove those that you don’t), you can click on the ellipses next to Background Mask and set your mask. Be sure to set the background color to “use drawing background color”.

[sinc]

If you switch to paperspace before doing the export, then the hatches all get dumped out with white backgrounds, which print correctly, as long as you aren't using a "Lines Merge" option in your printer.