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Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:14:33 GMT

When I plot in monochrome it looks as thought there aren't any different lineweights assigned or anything to the each of the layers, they all look like they have the same lineweight. How would I edit some of the colors so they'll be more/less thick when I plot them? I've opened up the monochrome.ctb plot style but all of the settings seem to be the same for every color. Any advice on trying to alleviate this problem?

Re: Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

imadHabash — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:28:29 GMT

Hi,

you can make your own CTB and edit pen assignment as you need,from plot dialog assign the color with lineweight ( see attached image)

Re: Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

Patchy — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:29:28 GMT

Edit them in here:

Re: Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

Llam.Tech — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:08:07 GMT

@Anonymous

You can also change your line weight in the layer tool bar. You can always change it by layer.

Hope this helps.

Jay

Re: Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

scot-65 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:37:17 GMT

While in the PLOT dialog, if you assign a CTB pen table to anything other than "None", the

Lineweight column is for display purposes only and is controlled by the variable LWDISPLAY.

Otherwise, selecting "None" will print both the lineweight and color.

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Re: Plotting Lineweights in Monochrome

scot-65 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:02 GMT

Others have shown you how to set up the pen tables.

This reply is to help you determine the number of line weights to use and the range of sizes.

For practical purposes, limit the number of line weights to 5.

Anything beyond that will be unnoticeable.

Also, assign 3 gray scales, all having the same line weight.

Finally, assign a "No Plot" color who's screening is 0%.

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For every color you assign a line weight to, select Color "Black".

Use a range of 0.09mm to 0.35mm as a start. You will find there is

a threshold that will make the line weight jump to the next size, so

keep an eye on this.

Assign White (Color 7) to be the "Neutral" line weight.

Most places I have seen use Red (Color 1) as the thinnest line weight.

Assign the gray scales to the second thinnest line weight.

Colors 251, 252 and 253 work well for gray scale in lieu of setting

up the screening.

I use color 11 for Defpoints and the Color 11 as 0% screening.

Hope this helps.

And Welcome to these Forums.

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