Plotting in monochrome except for 1 layer

[slovenc0417]

Here is the deal. We need to plot revised drawings with clouds for a local building department that demands the clouds be in color with everything else in the standard B/W !!!

 

Our office pen settings are set in a way that a particular line color has a specific lineweight, i.e., on the screen all the lineweights appear the same, but when plotted the lineweights vary.

 

My first thought was to to simply turn all the layers to one color (white for example) and the clouded layer to be red, create a PDF in color thus having black lines and red clouds. This works, however, all the lineweights are now the same which makes for an unappealing drawing.

 

Is there a way to isolate the clouds as one color (red) and monochrome th eo ther layers yet still mainting their pre-determined lineweights?

 

Thanks for any help in advance!

[ReMark]

Assign the cloud layer a True Color?

 

It's the local building department...honestly, they don't give a rats *** about how appealing the drawing looks. Their main job is to find errors and omissions not "beauty".

[slovenc0417]

Problem solved.

 

The pen setting we normally use to plot in BW assigns all the colors we use to plot in black. Obviously, right?

 

I simply editted the .ctb file to plot a specific color (in this case color 132 which is unique to the cloud layer) to plot in red.

 

Now all the colors except 132 plot in black, while 132 plots in red.

 

Before anyone asks , I would have chosen red to plot in red, but red is used on many other layers and we did not want to change ALL the drawings with red layers to another color. We simply changed one layer, the cloud layer, to be color 132.

[ReMark]

Glad to hear you solved your problem and thanks for updating us.

 

The inspectors are just going to show you all kinds of love when you hand that to them. Wait until you see the red they put on it. Good luck.