Transparency Not Working on Hatch in AutoCAD

by Gareth Spencer

AutoCAD allows you to adjust the transparency of hatching.

Below is an image with the transparency displayed, the hatch on the left transparency is 28% and on the right its 84%.

Below the transparency displayed has been switched off.

If the transparency tool for Hatch in AutoCAD and its stopped working then see the following:    

This can be controlled by a system variable TRANSPARENCYDISPLAY.

TRANSPARENCYDISPLAY

This controls whether the object transparency is displayed.

0   Object transparency is not displayed.

1   Object transparency is displayed.

Please note this is only available in AutoCAD 2011 version onwards.