Plotting an element twice?

RE: Plotting an element twice?

Lorys — Wed, 24 May 2017 13:30:43 GMT

[quote user="Jose Pinho"]

Ryan,

I believe Robert was pointing you in the right way, to use two references of the same. Not level copy. This is a nice option. With overrides you can have different color, weight and linestyle of the same element. After you have to verify the reference sequences.

Are they 3d files? If it's time consuming, have you check the various ways to place references? Namely cached?

Since many years I've dropped the color yellow from my drawing. In fact we used to do that for yellow/red drawings but it was very hard to see this color, so now we use red/green which the print output gives us the colour black in the mix. When the use of yellow is required we use a custom dark yellow one.

Regards

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There are a couple of ways that you can use to speed up the process

1st way Jose has hinted

how I would do it..

Draw per normal using your yellow for text and shapes etc, create a pentable ( call it yellow_halo.tbl) and tell it to resymbolise all objects that use the yellow by its colour number ( some place customise the colour table pallet) and change the out put to a duller yellow I found a dirty yellow or Gold works best for text on paper...

Now copy and edit your common or used printer.pltcfg ie assume its the pdf one change its name to YellowHalo.pltcfg and edit it to chose the halo pentable you made earlier ..Now train everyone when to use it ....

To find the best colour there is a macro floating around to plot all the RGB swatches ( if you really cant find it PM me and I'll find it in my archives and post it again) you can get a rgb value to put manually in the pen table especially if you have a acad colour you know works better for you ...

2nd way

This works best for text only , create custom text style for yellow text set it to be black text and have a background colour set to yellow in your text style set it to 20% of the text size ie 2mm text = 0.4 off set x and y works very well and set the out line and fill to both to be yellow the same colour number...then you dont need the dirty yellow and can use the bright yellow.. acts like a highlighter has been run over your black text..

the first way is best for existing drawings and quick prints as you dont change anything just use a custom printer and custom pentable attached...

RE: Plotting an element twice?

Jose Pinho — Fri, 19 May 2017 21:54:29 GMT

RE: Plotting an element twice?

Ryan Daniels — Fri, 19 May 2017 20:54:37 GMT

Like I said, we already have a method to print them. We're going the reference route, but it's slow. We could copy the level, but we don't want the 2 copies to be there all the time (and risk them not matching), only during plotting. I tried that through opendesignfileforprogram, which is very fast, but won't work with read-only files.

I listed the ways I know how to do what I'm doing. I was asking if there was anything more simple.

RE: Plotting an element twice?

Bob Rayner — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:11:25 GMT

If it's a 2d file, I use level priority. That does require 2 copies or an additional reference with override set. There are several ways to do what you're doing, find the simplest.