Screening an entire drawing...

[1eo]

dumb question...

 

how does engineers screen an entire dwg so they can layout their stuff on top?

 

The only way that I can think, would be to create a new plot style and to take all my lineweights and modify them to whatever % screening I want.. then create a new set of lineweights with colors that I haven't use before

 

Is that how they do it?

 

thanks!

leo

[ahmon]

If the drawing is inserted as an xref, in the Layer Properties Manager you can select that xref and make all the layers in it one color (what ever is your lightest line weight color) and what ever you draw on top of it will be darker. That is how we do our MEP drawings. However if there are blocks in the drawing of the xref and any lines that are not set to by layer for their color, they will not change. So everything has to have its color set by layer.

 

Hope this helps.

[1eo]

yeah, they are xref... so your technique works much better

[vizwhiz]

some companies will move ALL Layers To ONE Layer

explode The dwg file until There are no more Blocks

change ALL To 'bylayer', This ensures That The background

will plot in lightweight correctly, a bit more work but its worth it

 

The next xref update will require repeating This procedure

but This does avoid The nested bycolor Block dilemma problem

[1eo]

some companies will move ALL Layers To ONE Layer

explode The dwg file until There are no more Blocks

change ALL To 'bylayer', This ensures That The background

will plot in lightweight correctly, a bit more work but its worth it

 

The next xref update will require repeating This procedure

but This does avoid The nested bycolor Block dilemma problem

 

Because, I'm the only one working on it... I'll do it right the first time and keep all my lines colored by layer.

We usually do it that way anyway.

 

regards,

leonardo