Plotting Question 1

[DieMan44]

I am trying to plot my drawing out with only one componet in color (RED) and everything elese in B/W. My assemby is in multiple colors. Is there a way I can plot my drawing as desired without changing all my componets to white except for the one I want red to red?

 

[JohnRBaker]

You could use the line font to control it. For example, if you had only used Thin and Normal width fonts for the rest of your Drawing, edit the component of interest to be Thick font and then Plot using 'Colors by Width', setting Thin and Normal to Black and Thick to Red.

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[DieMan44]

Thanks Johhn. I see the colors by width, but I am not clear on setting the line widths to a color.

 

[JohnRBaker]

What you need to do is in the 'Colors And Width' section of the Plot dialog is to set the Colors option to 'Colors by Width'. Then select the Define Palette icon which will bring up the standard color palette. Go to the bottom of the dialog in the section titled 'Selected Color', and set the ID number to 1, which will be the Thin 'pen'. Now place your cursor over the long narrow colored area (which will probably be white) just above this ID entry, press MB3, select the 'Edit' option, using the standard Windows color editor, set the color to Black. Repeat this for ID number 2, which will be the Normal 'pen' and then for ID number 3, which will be for Thick lines, edit the color to be Red. Once this is done, hit OK, which will take you back to the Plot dialog and with everything set as desired, hit OK and your plot/image will be created.

Note that you can follow this same procedure when creating PDF or CGM files as well.

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[DieMan44]

Thanks John!!! I have been wanting to do that for a long time but could not figure it out.

 

[DieMan44]

John,

Plotting by line width works ok, but it would be preferable to asign color by layer similar to AutoCad. I can't seem to get it to work, can you give suggestions?

 

[looslib]

This isn't AutoCAD! Computervision used to set colors by layer, too. Pro/E does not, even though they have owned CV for 12 years.
There have been numerous ERs filed for that and they never get enough votes to make it to the top 10 list.

The only way you can assign colors by layer is to change all components/entities on a layer to your color or set work layer/color and create entities. Then when you plot, you can plot by coor and assign the proper pen to a screen color, All colors plot to black, except green plots to green, etc. This way you can have multiple colored items while the rest of the plot is black.


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[DieMan44]

"There have been numerous ERs filed for that and they never get enough votes to make it to the top 10 list."

Really?

 

[jerry1423]

Printing by color is very old school, put it to rest.

 

[looslib]

The ERs go back many years, prior to NX even. They are so many ways to get plotting by color to work that most users won't vote for an ER that assigns colors by layers. Many more important ERs to be considered and have more value to the user community.



"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[JohnRBaker]

And trust me, the people who are STILL depending on layers to organize their models, the idea of using these same layers to somehow also manage plot colors would be one of the last things on their minds.

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