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Anonymous
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Color Plotting

Anonymous
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HI,

 

how to plot an selected area w/ color and the rest still remain monochrome?

 

thank you~

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Color Plotting

HI,

 

how to plot an selected area w/ color and the rest still remain monochrome?

 

thank you~

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Alfred.NESWADBA
in reply to: Anonymous

Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

welcome @Anonymous.autodesk.com!

 

>> how to plot an selected area w/ color and the rest still remain monochrome?

Create 2 viewports, one with the original layer colors, the other viewport use the layer-manager to overwrite/VPColor and set they to grey.

 

- alfred -

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Hi,

 

welcome @Anonymous.autodesk.com!

 

>> how to plot an selected area w/ color and the rest still remain monochrome?

Create 2 viewports, one with the original layer colors, the other viewport use the layer-manager to overwrite/VPColor and set they to grey.

 

- alfred -

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2024
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(not an Autodesk consultant)
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Kent1Cooper
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Kent1Cooper
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What I do is to use colors 1 through 6 for black linework at different lineweights, but all assigned to plot black in the pen assignments.  If I want something in color, all the other colors are available for that, but anything in those first 6 colors plus the various grays [8, 9, 250's series] plots monochromatically.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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What I do is to use colors 1 through 6 for black linework at different lineweights, but all assigned to plot black in the pen assignments.  If I want something in color, all the other colors are available for that, but anything in those first 6 colors plus the various grays [8, 9, 250's series] plots monochromatically.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

just a sample for how that works with 2 viewports, done in a minute or maybe 2 😉

 

20170215_1516.png

 

- alfred -

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Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2024
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(not an Autodesk consultant)

Hi,

 

just a sample for how that works with 2 viewports, done in a minute or maybe 2 😉

 

20170215_1516.png

 

- alfred -

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2024
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(not an Autodesk consultant)
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Emmsleys
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Emmsleys
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Following up on your thread, were you able to find a solution? 

 

Post back with any new updates I'd be happy to try and help. 



Sarah Emmsley
Technical Support Specialist

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Following up on your thread, were you able to find a solution? 

 

Post back with any new updates I'd be happy to try and help. 



Sarah Emmsley
Technical Support Specialist

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