Make sure all layers you want to be printed black have their color set to black. There are really very few exceptions to this rule in CAD. To make entity attributes manageable again, all entity attributes should be set to 'By Layer'.

Now some of these white entities should be printed in black, others in white (background of labels). Some of the entities are nested in blocks. There are a lot of white entities in that drawing (some are white because they are on white layers, others have fixed colors assigned to them). Block 'Group-482-1' in turn, contains polylines and lines, all with fixed color set to white. However, the contents of block 'Group-485-1' also consists of block references, this time referencing block 'Group-482-1' on layer 'SCENERY' with fixed color set to white. The block reference is on layer 'DECKS SL' and has a fixed color assigned to it (black). The area you are referencing in your last screenshot is a block reference to block 'Group-485-1'. QCad Forum Hatch Craziness.dwg (1.03 MiB) Downloaded 231 times I am also trying to meet a deadline and quite thrown by how something that seems so easy could be such a disaster. Suddenly black lines are invisible everywhere (even though my background is white) and my work is essentially back to square one.Ĭan anyone help me at all? I am attaching the drawing. When I toggle this off it does appear to resolve my hatch issue but leaves the remainder of my drawing in such a bizarre state, it's unpresentable.

I searched through the forum and saw the suggestion to toggle on and off the option to prevent white on white and black on black layers.

However they are showing up in preview as black, and when I export as pdf they remain black. I am creating my hatches on their own layer, which is white as well.

In order for the notes to pop out against the rest of the drawing I am attempting to place Black text on top of a White hatch. I am working on a drawing with some notes.

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