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Autocad HIGHTLIGHT over image or vector

Autocad HIGHTLIGHT over image or vector

Autocad HIGHTLIGHT over image or vector

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In an App called XMAP or 3d topo quads... you can draw an area over somewhere on a map and it would highlight it with a bold regular line on the perimeter of the area. in the Area inside the Perimeter it is like a SOLID HATCH but translucent so you can still see the area.

Is there a way that autocad can do this? or a lisp...

Thanks for the help...

RE: Autocad HIGHTLIGHT over image or vector

You can draw a square over an image and do a "cross hatch".
Then do a "draworder" and send the hatch to TOP over the image.

That's one way


Another way would be to ...
Go into Paint
Draw a SOLID red (or whatever) square
Save as a BMP
Exit PAINT

Go into AutoCAD
Image Xref the "Paint" block.
Place it over the image and play with the properties (tranparency)

You might have to do a "draworder" here too!

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