hey are you tired of playing with individual layers to de-emphasize less
important parts of your drawing? if yes, then stay tuned because this video is
for you
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as today the options we have to de-emphasize portions of our drawings are
one, changing each individual layer transparency so they print lighter or
option two, have a CTB file or plot style with the correct color layer that will
print lighter or darker depending on the color that you layer have, but today, we
have a third option, which is the option that I'm gonna give it to you right now.
it is the custom transparency command which the cool thing is it can be
applied globally as you are seeing in this example. we separated the existing
conditions from the proposed for plan, so the new floor plan stands out. how cool
is that. now, if you're not seeing your transparency on your model space it's
because you have your transparency display settings off. so, simply type
transparency display, zero we'll turn that off and one will turn it on
the nice things are, this command will work with literally anything as you can see
here, we'll use it with an Autocad OLE image and for those advanced AutoCAD
users, you know that this is impossible in AutoCAD. we don't have that much
flexibility with Autocad Ole images, but hey this custom command works.
How cool is that!
to create our AutoCAD custom transparency command, let's type cui and enter. this will bring us
to the customizable user interface of AutoCAD. here, we can duplicate any of the
existing commands, rename it, and change its macro. alternatively, we can hit the
start icon to create a new command, and again rename it, and change its macro.
So, let's create our custom autocad command
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a quick explanation of this autocad macro would be CC to get out of any active command
then we'll use the command layer. we'll use M to make a new layer and the name
of my layer would be lighter but you can pick your own names
then, we'll use TR to set the transparency, in this case, I'll pick 50
but again you can pick your own numbers. then, we'll use the command rectangle
Our final command would be wipeout we'll set P for polyline, L for last and
Y for yes. that would be all the code for this macro
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now to use our transparency command globally and have it always available we can either add it
to our autocad ribbon, to our AutoCAD quick access panel, or to our AutoCAD
tool palette. so let's add our new transparency command
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let's test our AutoCAD transparency command. one click, two clicks, and done!
awesome! now let's preview, how cool is that
a portion of my drawing it's lighter automatically. don't forget to check the
plot transparency option whenever you plot a drawing. hey
but if you are subscribed already to the Lazy Arquitecto you know that also
we can automate this, so to make our life easier, we can use the plot transparency
overwrite system variable. if we set that to 2 we don't need to worry about it!
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