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Screening an area of drawing for plotting

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Screening an area of drawing for plotting

Anonymous
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I have a large plan for which I would like to screen a portion of for plotting. (I want part of it to plot very lightly, the rest normally, but I don't want to have to make physical changes to the plan itself to plot this way.  I want the entire plan to remain normal for normal plotting.) Can I do this?

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wispoxy
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With AutoCAD play around with the pen-styles. Easy to do with adobe photoshop.

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Anonymous
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Thanks, but I don't have access to Photoshop.  I'm hoping there's some command that allows me to define a specific area of the plan to show lightened without making physical changes to the properties of my lines & text.

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wispoxy
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Play around with viewport visual settings in paperspace.

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pendean
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Those objects need to be set to a pen setting that is very light in your plot style table.
Or simply change them to color 254, 253, 252, 251 or 250 (find the one that's faint enough for your needs): this assumes your plot style table is CTB (or you use no plot style table) and those colors have no overrides if you do use a plot style table.
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wispoxy
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My Plot Style is blank, shows nothing, has no name. Not sure why, but it's working the way I want anyway. What if your screen only shows half an object, but you only want that half to be colored differently. I think that's what @Anonymous is asking, asking for a photoshop effect.

 

Example: Everything in a viewport one color on paperspace and one color on modelspace.

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Anonymous
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OK, thanks.  I know I can do that, and have for some instances.  However, I have linework in both areas that are all on the same layers, so I was trying to avoid having to change layers to affect the plot outcome.  I was hoping to be able to select certain "areas" of the drawing to print lighter (perhaps by defining a border), but it sound like it's not that simple.

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pendean
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CTB works with the color of the objects: there is no "do this area only with penX" plotting option in AUtoCAD.
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