I have a plot style set up and need to change it by 25%. Is there a way to modify an existing plot style without having to modify each of the 250 or so colors individually? I am using Auto Cad 2005.

Thanks

2/27/2007 10:16:50 AM

can you "select all" and then change the screening to 25%?

here's what i'm talking about. If i'm off base let me know, I assumed you're talking about changing the color intensity for a test run or something.



http://www.cadmasters.com/techsupp/acad/pltstyle.html

[Edited on February 27, 2007 at 11:08 AM. Reason : fixed]

2/27/2007 10:58:44 AM

Yeah I tried that. What that is doing is just not allowing as much ink on each pass. What I am trying to accomplish is have the actual line thickness changed by 25%. You can do it manually by going to each one and changing it but that is a pain in the ass and very time consuming so I was just trying to see if there was a way to change them all at once. Thanks for the response though that does save you lots of ink for draft and markup copies of work in the office.

2/27/2007 12:39:35 PM

I'm no autoCAD expert by any means, but just looking at that couldn't you just change the lineweight? Isn't that what your talking about?

2/27/2007 12:47:26 PM

Quote :

"Is there a way to modify an existing plot style without having to modify each of the 250 or so colors individually? "

I know you can change each one individually. I am trying to change them all by a factor of 25% at one time.

2/27/2007 12:50:15 PM

^^ i think the problem he is running into with that is he can't change them by scale. He having to change the actual size one by one. I know you can make the lineweight print in proportion to the scale of the drawing. But it seems like what you're getting is just big so you want to reduce the overall lineweight for printing purposes.

If you want to scale them to the drawing, and there may be other options here, go to
file>print>advanced tab> scale lineweight

[Edited on February 27, 2007 at 12:56 PM. Reason : .]

2/27/2007 12:56:02 PM

^Yeah

The thing is we have two offices. I am lucky enough to work at the office that has the plotter that isn't as nice. Ours prints out much darker than the other one. The reason I need to just scale the plot style down is because it is our company plot style and I don't need to be messing with it to much other than just having one for this office that prints out a little lighter and has the lineweights decreased by 25%.

2/27/2007 1:02:49 PM

with 2007 you can export the plot style file as a spreadsheet. If there is a way to do this with 2005 you could then at least change all lineweights of the same size at once. Would save a lot of your time. However, i don't know if this is possible in 2005 but may be worth looking into.

2/27/2007 1:22:14 PM

did you not use layers in your drawings, cause if so i seriously doubt you would have 250 LAYERS that actually need changing - and layers is the way to do it rather than relying on colors. you can change the colors of lines after you make the layer but i would just think of it as a way to tell the different ones apart on screen rather than print them that way. of course i could be thinking in the wrong direction, but i would try to organize your lines by layers and then adjust line weights cause thats a LOT easier and i dont think you can do it the way youre trying cause thats not really the way its meant to be done.

2/27/2007 2:06:08 PM

seriously, do what ^ he said, go into layer manager, sort the layers by lineweight, then select in groups the one's you want to change and change them. this shouldn't take more than 5-10 min.

2/27/2007 6:58:19 PM