Remove text background mask
By Julie Riddle on Wednesday, 04 September 2019
Posted in Irrigation
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The text on my callouts and items like the POC comes in with a background mask now.  Sometimes that's superb, but there are other times when I'd like to remove that mask.  I've discovered I can one at a time double click, ..., edit the text formatting to check the background mask box, apply, and then uncheck it and the masking will go away.  Is there an easier/better/correct way to do it?

Thanks,

Julie

 

Julie,

 

For blocks like that, that would be the way to do it.  It certainly seems that we could make a little helper function to do that automatically though.

But I'd rather address the real issue here -- there is something really wrong with the mask in that image, it is way too wide!  If the mask was correctly the size of the text, I don't think it would be any issue, and would simply make the plan clearer.

If you send in that drawing, we can see why the mask is so large.

 

--J

Jeremiah Farmer
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5 years ago
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$0.10

I LOVE it. It's one of the best new things that make the biggest difference on the actual plans. Thanks so much!

Steve Cook
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5 years ago
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Jeremiah -
Did LandFX ever create a helper function to disable the text mask when needed? Like others said, I love the auto masking but when using color hatching for renderings, I'd rather not have the mask. A helper function would definitely be a lot less work especially when looking at 50+ labels!

Thanks in advance.
Bennett LaFrance
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2 years ago
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Bennett,

No, we never did.
It certainly has not appeared to be a highly desired tool.
It should be fast enough with vanilla CAD commands - Select a label, Right Click to Select Similar, and then set Background Mask to No.

--J
Jeremiah Farmer
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2 years ago
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Jeremiah -

Thanks for the speedy reply. That would work with mtext but because it's a block with attributes, enhanced attribute editor will not allow me to select more than one label "block". Maybe there's some other way?

Ben
Bennett LaFrance
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2 years ago
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Ben,

Go ahead and send in an example drawing through our Tech Support feature so I can see what can be done.

--J
Jeremiah Farmer
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2 years ago
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