Printing Proposed In color

[jquackenbush]

I was wondering if there is a way to print proposed lines in color, yet still have everything else print in monochrome.

 

Currently we print using monochrome, but would like to have our proposed line work stand out even more by selecting them, and having them print out in color.

 

Is there a way to do this without having to set all the other layers to a grey scale manually.

 

Thanks

[the ber]

this sounds like a case for named plot styles. you set one style as black for most lines, and another style as normal, for example, with color by layer or however you define the lines' colors.

[the ber]

here's a good article that might help

http://www.ejsurveying.com/Articles/NamedPlotStyles.aspx

[ReMark]

I'm sure it is a good article but I don't have time to read it all right now.

 

Assign a TrueColor to the layer your "proposed" work is on and use either a monchrome.ctb or stb plot style. Yes, it works.

[jquackenbush]

Thanks guys, I cant switch to a stb plot file unless i reconfigure my plotter by the looks of things, but was able to choose which colors plotted out.

 

A bit more leg work then what I was hoping for, but future drawings should go a bit quicker.

[tzframpton]

ReMark has the best idea if you can't switch to STB Plot Styles.

 

CTB Plot Styles do not recognize anything set to a True Color (aka: R,B,G Setting, from the True Color tab in the Color Selector). This is what I do for "redlines" among other things when I create PDF's and I need something to stand out.

[rkent]

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Assign a TrueColor to the layer your "proposed" work is on and use either a monchrome.ctb or stb plot style. Yes, it works.

 

ReMark - this won't work on STB styles, this is one of the differences between ctb and stb.

[jquackenbush]

 

In the Plot style Table Editor you can select which color you want to print.

 

It doesnt have to be a true color, can be any of the 250 some odd colors that CAD has. I have them set to print as the object color, but if you wanted to you can select to have color 1 plot off as color 35

[CyberAngel]

Another solution is to select all the existing-object layers and override their colors for that viewport only. Assuming you want to do this in only one viewport....

[ReMark]

I stand corrected. Thanks guys.

[BIGAL]

Ours colour 1-9 = black, 10-150 = object colour, 251-255 grey just save the ctb and give it a name, eg gas mains by layer with linetype ----G---- color 10 bright red!

 

PLOT next to little down arrow top right side is the CTB modify and save

Edited December 9, 2011 by BIGAL