Existing topography coming out to light

I generally make my own Pen Table for each project and don't just use the FDOT_GrayExisting. I like to tweak a lot of things to make the plans come out cleaner. Save the FDOT_GrayExisting to your roadway folder and call it Roadway.tbl. Hit Print, attach that Roadway.tbl, and then Resymbolization -> Edit Pen Table.

In the Modify Pen Table window, hit the Map Pen Colors button. Hit Edit -> Import from Printer Driver Configuration and choose the FDOTPDF.pltcfg. Now you will see that all the colors are black except for 20, which is 150,150,150.

Now what I like to do is redefine all the gray colors down the left hand side of the color table. So start with color 32 and change that to 115,115,115. Make color 48 105,105,105. And you can keep going as well. I also make a Color 80 which is 80,80,80, which I find is a nice solid gray color for shading adjacent projects, or using it on Signing and pavement markings to make the proposed roadway features gray and the pavement markings black so they pop.

There is a lot more you can do with your pen tables when you learn how to use them in conjunction with logical names.

I generally make my own Pen Table for each project and don't just use the FDOT_GrayExisting. I like to tweak a lot of things to make the plans come out cleaner. Save the FDOT_GrayExisting to your roadway folder and call it Roadway.tbl. Hit Print, attach that Roadway.tbl, and then Resymbolization -> Edit Pen Table.

In the Modify Pen Table window, hit the Map Pen Colors button. Hit Edit -> Import from Printer Driver Configuration and choose the FDOTPDF.pltcfg. Now you will see that all the colors are black except for 20, which is 150,150,150.

Now what I like to do is redefine all the gray colors down the left hand side of the color table. So start with color 32 and change that to 115,115,115. Make color 48 105,105,105. And you can keep going as well. I also make a Color 80 which is 80,80,80, which I find is a nice solid gray color for shading adjacent projects, or using it on Signing and pavement markings to make the proposed roadway features gray and the pavement markings black so they pop.

There is a lot more you can do with your pen tables when you learn how to use them in conjunction with logical names.