Background - Windows 2000, MicroStation SE, Xerox 8830 & "printer.plt". Problem - I need to lighten the line weights for reduced size prints. I attempted to modify the weight_strokes line in "printer.plt" but any modification to that line results in a blank plot. (printer.plt shown below) ; System printer configuration file ; ; Use on Windows to print to system printer ; ; ; You may produce non-halftoned monochrome output on a color ; device by setting "num_pens=1". ; ; When thin vector elements with highly saturated colors are half-toned, ; they can be extraordinarily difficult to see. You may wish to ; assign such element colors to a specific pen. That pen can in turn ; be assigned an RGB value of your choice. ; ; For example, to change element color 5 from a hard to see, highly ; saturated white to an easier to see gray you could use the following ; line: ; pen(6)=(5)/rgb=(230, 230, 230) ; gray ; num_pens = 255 ; required record model = sysprinter stroke_tolerance=10 ; unitless num 0 < tol < 10 rotate=none autocenter ; ; If you are using Windows 95/3.x you will want to change 'hardware' to ; 'nohardware' in the linestyle definitions below. Otherwise it will result ; in the inability to plot lines that have both weight and style. This is ; due to a limitation in the Graphics Device Interface of Windows 95/3.x. ; Note that making this change can result in less-compact printer output ; from MicroStation. ; style(1)=(12, 36)/hardware ;style = dot style(2)=(21, 12)/hardware ;style = med dash style(3)=(50, 17)/hardware ;style = long dash style(4)=(33, 12, 8, 12)/hardware ;style = dot-dash style(5)=(17, 17)/hardware ;style = short dash style(6)=(25, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8)/hardware ;style = dash-dot-dot style(7)=(33, 8, 17, 8)/hardware ;style = long dash - short dash ; ; linecap, linejoin and miter_limit ; Note: these settings do not have an effect in Win95/3.x ; due to a limitation in the Graphics Device Interface ; linecap = 2 ; 1=butt, 2=square, 4=round linejoin = 2 ; 2=miter/bevel, 4=round, 5=beveled miter_limit = 1.415 ; Larger values allow longer spikes w/linejoin=2 ; ; You may uncomment this line and adjust the values to customize the ; logical to physical line weight mapping used by MicroStation printing. ;weight_strokes= (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28 ,29,30,31,32) ; ; The following settings allow the user to control how line-weights in ; MicroStation translate into the actual pen-widths used to drawn lines. ; The pen-width equals offset + (multiplier * line-weight). ; The offset controls the minimum pen-width used. ; The multiplier controls the difference between adjacent line-weights. ; eg. If offset=4 and multiplier=2, a line-weight 1 will yield a pen- width of 6. ; a line-weight 2 will yield a pen- width of 8. ; eg. If offset=0 and multiplier=1, there is a one-to-one correspondence between ; line-weight and resulting pen-width. i.e. line-weight 1 yields pen- width 1. ;weight_offset=0 ;weight_multiplier=4 ; Remove this if no border is desired ; available qualifiers ; /pen=n specifies pen to use to draw border ; /time adds time and date to border ; /filename adds name of design file to border ; /text_height=n units are cm ; /width=n units are cm border/pen=1/time/filename/text_height=0.35 ; Remove this if no fence outline is desired fence_outline/pen=1 ; specifies Resolution on Mac and Units on Mac and OS/2 resolution(IN)=(0.0,0.0) ; Substitute the name of a pentable file to be loaded when this driver is selected ;pentable=\dir\file.tbl ; Uncomment this line to designate a specific system printer, form, and orientation ; Note that the 3 options can be used alone or in combination ;sysprinter /name=printer-name /form=letter /orientation=portrait ; This keyword controls the size (diameter) of points. Units are cm. ; A value of 0, disables point drawing. ; Note that with some system printer drivers, setting this value ; too small, may result in no point being drawn. point_size = 0.03
Your post in this NG has Your post on Bentleys' server has ;weight_strokes= (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28 ,29,30,31,32) Below is closer to what it should be, but it's hard to tell with word wrap. Any line that starts with ; is ignored. ; weight_strokes=(4,9,15,22,30,35,45,50,55,65,75,85,95,105,115,125,135,145,155 ,165,175,185,195) Below is what I prefer. ;weights are in plotted mm, 0 thru 7 on line 1, 8 thru 15, 16 thru 23, ; and 24 thru 31 weight_strokes(mm)=(0.05, 0.125, 0.175, 0.225, 0.25, 0.425, 0.35, 0.40, \ 0.475, 0.40, 0.55, 0.60, 0.675, 1.50, 0.975, 0.275, \ 0.425, 2.15, 3.00, 0.35, 0.375, 0.50, 0.50, 1.50, \ 0.75, 0.75, 1.45, 2.50, 0.375, 0.375, 0.40, 0.40) I picked all of the above out of google group search with weight_strokes as the term and *microstation* as the groups to search. It took 2 minutes. Offset and Multiplier are stupid IMHO and require some testing. Perhaps you should *attach* your printer.plt.
