Plotting a "blueprint"

[sgodino]

I am trying to plot a plan and have it come out looking like a blueprint (blue background, white lines). I know it's sort of an odd request, but does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this. I am using LDT2007, but have access to the majority of that family of products.

Greatly appreciated...

[Anonymous]

That's a very odd request, and would use a ton of blue ink on a inkjet
plotter. The version of Land Development I don't think matters much in this
case. It's what plotters you have that matters. You need to reverse the
image, but instead of a black background, you need to set it up for a blue
background. Without knowing what plotters you have, this is hard to figure
out.


wrote in message news:5421820@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am trying to plot a plan and have it come out looking like a blueprint
(blue background, white lines). I know it's sort of an odd request, but does
anyone have any idea how to accomplish this. I am using LDT2007, but have
access to the majority of that family of products.

Greatly appreciated...

[sgodino]

I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

I do something similar for real estate renderings. Setup a plot style that
plots all the lines you want "white" as color 255, then you can use a solid
shade on whatever you want to plot blue. Send the shading to the back with
draworder and plot to pdf.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
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"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

you mean like this?

[img src="@132645"]

"John Mayo" <John(AT)ConklinAssociates.com>
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You could also just go
into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert
that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line
work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire

background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin
Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design
2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB
Ram
<sgodino> wrote in message
href="news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com">
size=2>news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com
size=2>...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually
printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video
presentation.  So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or
similar.

[Anonymous]

I did that by placing a solid hatch in the background and setting the ctb
file to print 2 colors.

Joe


"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

Great minds think alike - ay Bud?

Joe


"BudCAD" wrote in message
news:5422019@discussion.autodesk.com...
I do something similar for real estate renderings. Setup a plot style that
plots all the lines you want "white" as color 255, then you can use a solid
shade on whatever you want to plot blue. Send the shading to the back with
draworder and plot to pdf.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
Legal descriptions and more in LDT

"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

Good stuff guys. A hatch is a lot easier.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
"Joe Bouza" wrote in message
news:5422036@discussion.autodesk.com...
Great minds think alike - ay Bud?

Joe


"BudCAD" wrote in message
news:5422019@discussion.autodesk.com...
I do something similar for real estate renderings. Setup a plot style that
plots all the lines you want "white" as color 255, then you can use a solid
shade on whatever you want to plot blue. Send the shading to the back with
draworder and plot to pdf.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
Legal descriptions and more in LDT

"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[sgodino]

thanks bud!

it worked and it looks great!

good work.

[Anonymous]

Gradients have a lot of impact too. They mount these things under glass.
From a distance the white on green gradient hatch has a lot of impact.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
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"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5422038@discussion.autodesk.com...
Good stuff guys. A hatch is a lot easier.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
"Joe Bouza" wrote in message
news:5422036@discussion.autodesk.com...
Great minds think alike - ay Bud?

Joe


"BudCAD" wrote in message
news:5422019@discussion.autodesk.com...
I do something similar for real estate renderings. Setup a plot style that
plots all the lines you want "white" as color 255, then you can use a solid
shade on whatever you want to plot blue. Send the shading to the back with
draworder and plot to pdf.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
Legal descriptions and more in LDT

"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[Anonymous]

The gradient idea popped into my head as well Bud. It looks like you could
simulate washed/worn sheet edges or center fairly well.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
"BudCAD" wrote in message
news:5422054@discussion.autodesk.com...
Gradients have a lot of impact too. They mount these things under glass.
From a distance the white on green gradient hatch has a lot of impact.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
Legal descriptions and more in LDT

"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5422038@discussion.autodesk.com...
Good stuff guys. A hatch is a lot easier.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
"Joe Bouza" wrote in message
news:5422036@discussion.autodesk.com...
Great minds think alike - ay Bud?

Joe


"BudCAD" wrote in message
news:5422019@discussion.autodesk.com...
I do something similar for real estate renderings. Setup a plot style that
plots all the lines you want "white" as color 255, then you can use a solid
shade on whatever you want to plot blue. Send the shading to the back with
draworder and plot to pdf.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com
Legal descriptions and more in LDT

"John Mayo" wrote in message
news:5421900@discussion.autodesk.com...
You could also just go into your favorite photo editor, create a new image
flooded in blue. Insert that image into the dwg & use draworder to send it
behind your line work. The image can be made or scaled to fit the entire
background.

--
John Mayo
Project Engineer
Conklin Associates
Ramsey, NJ

Civil 3D 2007, LDT 2007, Raster Design 2007
P-IV at 3.5 GHz
2 GB Ram
Nvidea Quadro FX w/ 128 MB Ram
wrote in message news:5421887@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess I should be more clear. I do not intend on actually printing to
paper, but to an image file to be used in a video presentation. So I'd be
plotting to a PDF or similar.

[mjwoodruff]

Another thought...have you tried Autodesk's new Impression software? labs.autodesk.com

Michael
mjwoodruff@cadtimes.com
www.cadtimes.com