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Trying to fix up my title block and I can't figure out how to get solid hatching to be darker. It appears to be screened back or maybe transparency is set to 50%. Color of hatch is black, but appears gray on screen, in pdf and on printout.

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I have experienced the same. My workaround is to create closed linestings with "auto-close" and "draw filled" options on.

Down side is that it is impossible to create islands using multiple strings, so every "hole" has to be tracked using same string as the main outline (boundary).

Has anyone else experienced this? Or have an alternate solution?

Thank you Marian, I have never used the "Create Boundary" command before. It has given me some ideas for other tasks. 

I thought that this had been addressed when I last checked this - but that was with Text Colors - appears that we need to do the same here - I thought that using Near Black (RGB 15,15,15) would work but it appears not - I think that we must be applying a Transparency to the Hatch when you select Solid because it is Grey on a White Background but Black on a Black Background - The grey is caused by the White shining through the Black which means it has a Transparency Setting that is not exposed.

The Linestring point that Marian raises is because the Closed Flag and Solid Fill only applies to a single line whereas the Hatch is something that can be applied to multiple lines and it creates the internal boundary lines for you automatically to allow for Holes etc.

If you want Islands in Holes then do a second level Hatch on the Islands in the Holes

I have logged in the issues here

Alan

I am also having this issue. I found that our logo seems to greatly increase the size of plan sets so I figured converting it to linework would help but having similar issues filling in the text. 

It is almost like there is an opacity setting on for the hatching.