Dimension Printing

[Anonymous]

My dimensions color is green. It shows up too light on my canon laser printer unless i change it to a different color. I made lineweight darker and that made no difference. I'm used to using green with another company and it worked fine. I'm using AutoCAD LT 2012.

[pendean]

Did you set the pen color to #7 (black) in your plot style table? You should do so for any pen you don't want to print in color (or gray on a mono printer). But ask your peers first at this new company, they probably want you to do things their way, not your old company's way.

[Anonymous]

well, I am everyone. I never went thru any schooling, just taught the basics by engineers at my last job. I'm reading and watching every tutorial I can find online. Be buying a book on it soon too. I've been machine programmer and now I'm detailer also. I want to be as good and efficient as I can be.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry to say but this is the first I've attempted to work with plot style. How do I get the plot style table menu?

[Anonymous]

ok.  i used greyscale plot style and that is giving my the results i need. Thanks

[drjohn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I'm sorry to say but this is the first I've attempted to work with plot style. How do I get the plot style table menu?

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When you select plot and a dialog opens you may see an arrow in the lower right corner of the plot dialog. if it is pointing to the right, click it and it will expand the dialog.  On the new right pane you will see PLOT STYLE TABLES section in the upper right.

Making sure the plotstyle table you want to re-define is listed and selected in the plot style table field, click the button at the right end and it will open up the plot style table editor.

From here yer on yer own. Try changing a pen color or line width and see how that affects your drawing.  Don't go too deep until you get the gist of it.

Copying the original file to a different place may be a good idea just in case you get all screwed up and need to go back to zero.

They are located in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT 2012 - English\UserDataCache\Plotters\Plot Styles on my particular system.

HTH

Regards,

DJ