In order to hide certain elements of the drawing, one of the options is to use a wipeout. There is a lot written on this subject on internet of why using this option would be a bad idea. When printing, the wipeout prints as a black surface, so it is useless. This problem has been in Autocad since at least 2008. I have never used wipeout again and had to change all my blocks that had wipeouts. A way to come around this problem is to use a shade in the block, the shade in a layer which will "print as white", which gives in most cases the solution and only in certain printers some problem of printing a very dim gray. So this is a very good solution. You can also use a thick polyline and use it as a shade in the specific case you have a rectangular block. Anyway, when you handle refx, and you edit a refx "in place" from an other drawing, in the very moment of saving the changes autocad changes the draworder of these blocks so that either polylines or shades come above the perimeter of the block, therefore becoming invisible. This problem we came upon during autocad 2010, when our office started working with dynamic blocks and shaded blocks, and started to use refx intensively. We have recently bought 1 autocad 2014 and 5 autocad 2015, and these problems have not been solved. Could the Autocad team please solve this problem or give us an alternative? We do not use 3d, all our work is easy 2d that could be done with autocad 2006 but there is very small progress in fixing some bugs in autocad that affect 2d users. Also, simple line text editing in Autocad 2015 has a bug which does not permit editing by double clicking the simple line text. On the other hand it does work with the multiline text (as in previous versions). Is there a perspective of fixing these bugs anytime? We have payed some money to buy licenses and we find, after 8 months of usage, that Autocad 2012 had way far less 2d bugs than 2015 (at least those who concern the type of work we do).
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