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Changing transparency of background color

Changing transparency of background color - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Changing transparency of background color

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- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 03 Elevations 2D House drawing for this particular chapter, and I've left the drawing in exactly the same position as it was at the end of the last video. So you'll remember in the last video, we added that background color to our hatch pattern, and when we zoomed out a little bit, you'll notice that the background color has kind of overruled the hatch pattern which is also there as well. So when I hover over that hatch, the brickwork is still there, but the color is kind of overriding the nice brickwork that we can see there. So if I move away again, you'll see it goes back to the yellowish background color. So zoom in again. Get it nice and big on the screen, and click on your hatch pattern like so. And the hatch editor appears at the top on the ribbon again, that contextual tab. Now you can see, in the properties there, that we're using the ByLayer color for the hatch, which is the ELEV Hatch layer, and we've got the background color of 61…

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