Screening without color

[Autobadd]

Hello all.  Another noobie question...

Is there any way to screen parts of a drawing other than using colors?  For instance Microstation can screen using fences. 

Basically I have one file of line work I am referencing into my sheet file.  This line work consists of around 40 streets for a construction project.  I need to be able to show where each street is according to surrounding city blocks.  The idea is to have the street being worked on as being bold and surrounding streets screened out.  Is there any way to do this aside from making each street its own file?

Sorry I am not very good at describing things...

And thanks in advance for any help or insights!

[dgorsman]

Screened, as in plotting half-tone/quarter-tone?  That gets set up in CTB or STB plot styles, depending on how the drawing is configured.  Doing that on-screen without affecting printing is a little more involved as it can affect printing (with CTB more than STB).  For example, you can change the fade level for XREFs, and/or override the colors for the XREF-dependant layers in the host drawing.

[pendean]

Is this for printing purposes, or monitor display purposes? Or both?

If every street was on it's own layer, you could control each own that way using what is available in LAYER command (linetypes, color, plot styles,lineweights etc.)

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

what about using the transparency option?

- alfred -

[Autobadd]

Lets put it this way...

Say I have a magenta circle.  Is there any way I can have half of the circle screened to 30% after plotting?  Aside from cutting the circle in half and making half magenta and the other half a screened color...

TY for the responses!

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

one circle can only have one property, so one circle with 2 colors is not possible.

You might now draw an object that's color is white and that's (layers-)transparency is e.g. 60% and place this object above a half of your circle. If it's a hatch of type SOLID or a polyline with polyline-width, it's up to you.

- alfred -

[Autobadd]

Okay.  I was just hoping there was a way to screen something by placing a screening layer of some sort over it instead of having to break my drawing into so many different pieces.

Thank you for your help.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I was just hoping there was a way to screen something by placing a screening layer of some sort over it

Did you follow my suggestions? I didn't speak about breaking anything in your drawing, did I?

Or was my post bad to understand?

Create a layer with color white and transparency 60%

Create any filled object onto that layer in the size of the area you want to have faded.

Finished, I didn't break your circle.

...see also the attached drawing, in that case a polyline with width is created on a layer with truecolor white and transparency.

- alfred -

[Autobadd]

Actually I guess I didn't understand but now I do!  I think this will work Alfred.  Thank you!!