Hickoz_bro
12th Feb 2008, 01:12 pm
Hey all...
i have a bit of a challange for you inventor experts... the company i work for uses lots and lots of images in our work, trouble is that a normal black leader can be hard to see on some images, so what we've done in the past (in acad) is to create a leader block that has a "ghost" around it, and this ghost will just print out white so you can see it over the images, but not on a white background.
trouble is that with inventor, firstly, it's not possible (to my knowledge) to replicate this. and secondly, the only thing i can think of so far is to create 2 seperate leaders, the first leader would be in (say) 0.75MM lineweight, and white in colour. the second leader would be directly over the top, in (say) 0.25MM lineweight, and black.. however when you try to print out, we use "all colours as black" which means white colours too... so you just end up with a massive black leader. the other problem is that you can't easily relocate a leader because you have to adjust 2 seperate leader to look exactly the same...
has anyone got any suggestions on how to do this? i'm not after complete solutions (but it would be nice), i just need ideas so i can work on them...
P.S. bet the thread title threw you a bit :P
i have a bit of a challange for you inventor experts... the company i work for uses lots and lots of images in our work, trouble is that a normal black leader can be hard to see on some images, so what we've done in the past (in acad) is to create a leader block that has a "ghost" around it, and this ghost will just print out white so you can see it over the images, but not on a white background.
trouble is that with inventor, firstly, it's not possible (to my knowledge) to replicate this. and secondly, the only thing i can think of so far is to create 2 seperate leaders, the first leader would be in (say) 0.75MM lineweight, and white in colour. the second leader would be directly over the top, in (say) 0.25MM lineweight, and black.. however when you try to print out, we use "all colours as black" which means white colours too... so you just end up with a massive black leader. the other problem is that you can't easily relocate a leader because you have to adjust 2 seperate leader to look exactly the same...
has anyone got any suggestions on how to do this? i'm not after complete solutions (but it would be nice), i just need ideas so i can work on them...
P.S. bet the thread title threw you a bit :P