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Turn off the grey background mask of a field

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Last week I start using some fields on my projects for displaying and automatically updating the area every time I change the size of a new sign structures that I’m currently designing. This is in fact a cool feature that is available on the last couple of versions of AutoCAD. The only thing I don’t like is the annoying grey background mask. I know that it doesn’t print but for me it is still annoying. For anyone that agrees with me and wants to know how to turn off the grey background mask, simply type on the command line “fielddisplay” and then “0”.

<0> turn off grey background mask
<1> turn on grey background mask.
The default value is <1>.

posted by Fernando Salgado, 8:55 AM

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Olá, tudo bem por Ponte de Sor

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Anonymous, 10/27/2006 4:43 PM

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I'm Fernando Salgado From Whitby, Ontario, Canada I work at a consulting company as a Structural technologist, where I use AutoCAD daily. I have used AutoCAD, off and on for about 10 years, starting with the R14 version up until the current version. I like learning new tricks, sharing my knowledge and involving myself in the "CAD" community. I've also ventured into the web design field, with my own company Chimera for a number of years. On a personal note, I was born in Mozambique, lived in Portugal from the age of three, where I studied land surveying and engineering. In 2000, I moved to Canada, where I pursued web design and it wasn't until 2004 that I went into drafting again. I'm mostly self-taught AutoCAD and make it a hobby to collect as many books on the subject as possible.
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