Good Morning All,
I did read the only other thread on printing reference grey scale and using the color adjust function did not work for me. I have set my exist topo and utils (Topord01, and Utexrd01 respectively) to have a level symbology override to color 96 (what this firm uses to plot grey). If I set my dgn view attributes to print level symbology overrides, It then plots reference files I do not want to print with override symbology (ie prints with line weight of 0). When I set the view attributes dialog toggle to not print level symbology overrides it sets everything to WYSIWYG plot. In the reference dialog box, highlighting the topo file levels and then properties, I have set the override to on with the color specified, If I set the level manager to to override the references I do not want to be overridden are (ie the line weight of 1)
What am I missing here : ) Any help is appreciated and thank you for your time, Karen
oh and pardon, MicroStation V8i, Select series 2 version 08.11.07.469
In Level Manager, set the Symbology to Override. Then select all the levels in the reference files and set the color to what you want. Turn off the overrides for weight and linestyle. Select the Active File in the tree listing to the left and select all the levels. Change the color, weight & linestyle settings (or turn them off). Anything not set to override should plot wysiwyg unless the plot driver or pen table is set to modify the output.
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You need turn on the view attribute override symbology. Then explicitly set enable or disable the overrides for each level of each file, both active and reference. Color, Weight and Style are all individually controlled.
Its not as hard as it sounds. You can do a select all. turn overrides off for everything. Then go and flip on the color override for the files you want and set the desired color.
My preference is to use RGB values for grayscale overrides. This makes it in depend of specific color tables and/or pen tables.
Hello mwlong , thank you for your response. I have set my reference level manager to override, and in the properties pallet to the color i want, so my view shows say exist topo grey and dashed, but with my eop (set in the reference dialog to symbology off) it plots with a 0 line weight) If i take my view attributes level symbology set to on it plots the ref's i want grey but the rest to a thin plot weight, if off the reference symbology is lost. I have set the dsgnrdo1 (fdot design file) in the reference properities pallet to off on overides. I am still missing something, it seems they added 8 different steps in this procedure , when microstation j was just set reference symbology and forget
In other words, I have my plan sheet, reference in my design and topo. I want the topo grey and design as is (plot black).
I go to the reference pallet and highlight topo and set levels to overrides and color 96. I should not have to then go back to my design reference and set all those levels to have properties overrides to off with the view attributes pallet level override toggle on. I am doing that now and getting the results I want but it seems to be not a very intuitive process, unless again I am missing something :) (no doubt I am)