Setting Line Weights

[Weather25]

I cannot seem to get my lineweights to print without fading each color dependent on the color I am using. Even if I set all the line weights to the same thickness the lines still print out at different shades from each other. Example: red prints much darker than yellow or cyan. I want them all to print at the same shade only with different widths. I have looked in the forum and have not been able to find anything helpful on this issue. I have set up my plot style table witht the lineweights as listed below (inches):

red 0.010
yellow 0.014
green 0.010
cyan 0.018
blue 0.008
magenta 0.014
white 0.003

Please help. I have spent a lot of time trying different things and have gotten nowwhere.

Thanks in advance. Edited by: Weather25 on Jun 2, 2010 6:15 PM

[Anonymous]

Can you attach a screen shot of your plot style table?

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Matt Kolberg
Global CADD Systems - A division of Cansel

"Weather25" wrote in message news:6401505@discussion.autodesk.com...
> I cannot seem to get my lineweights to print without fading each color
> dependent on the color I am using. Even if I set all the line weights to
> the same thickness the lines still print out at different shades from each
> other. Example: red prints much darker than yellow or cyan. I want them
> all to print at the same shade only with different widths. I have looked
> in the forum and have not been able to find anything helpful on this
> issue. I have set up my plot style table witht the lineweights as listed
> below (inches):
>
> red 0.010
> yellow 0.014
> green 0.010
> cyan 0.018
> blue 0.008
> magenta 0.014
> white 0.003
>
> Please help. I have spent a lot of time trying different things and have
> gotten nowwhere.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Edited by: Weather25 on Jun 2, 2010 6:15 PM

[Weather25]

Here it is. In a seperate reply I will also attach a screen shot of my print preview scree that shows how it plots out. Yellow, Cyan and Magenta print out really light even though they are a thicker lineweight.

[Weather25]

I have attached a file showing what the screen print preview looks like as stated in previous post.

[Anonymous]

I haven't done CTB in some time...but I think the issue is the Virtual
Pen Number...or Gray Scale...

Matthew Anderson, PE


On 6/2/2010 2:10 PM, Weather25 wrote:
> Here it is. In a seperate reply I will also attach a screen shot of my print preview scree that shows how it plots out. Yellow, Cyan and Magenta print out really light even though they are a thicker lineweight.
>

[Weather25]

I figured it out. All colors have to be set to Black.

[Anonymous]

set all your colors to Black instead the actual color. Now all will print
the same color, with a different thickness.

wrote in message news:6401505@discussion.autodesk.com...
I cannot seem to get my lineweights to print without fading each color
dependent on the color I am using. Even if I set all the line weights to
the same thickness the lines still print out at different shades from each
other. Example: red prints much darker than yellow or cyan. I want them
all to print at the same shade only with different widths. I have looked in
the forum and have not been able to find anything helpful on this issue. I
have set up my plot style table witht the lineweights as listed below
(inches):

red 0.010
yellow 0.014
green 0.010
cyan 0.018
blue 0.008
magenta 0.014
white 0.003

Please help. I have spent a lot of time trying different things and have
gotten nowwhere.

Thanks in advance.

Edited by: Weather25 on Jun 2, 2010 6:15 PM

[Kagawong]

Please tell me where you set the colors to black.  I'm assuming you did not have to change all the screen layer colors...  I was an AutoCAD guru a decade ago but the wheels have fallen off 🙂  Thanks

[Sinc]

In your CTB/STB file...

Here's a sample from a CTB file: