working in paperspace in black and white-no color

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by mlabaj, Oct 13, 2005.

  1. mlabaj

    mlabaj Guest

    Hello,
    My office is using ACAD 2000. We do all our text and dimensioning in
    paperspace. The difficulty is that paperspace is in color and it is
    difficult to see some of the lines, like yellow. Is there a setting/way
    to work in paperspace with black text and lines on a white background
    and not in color?

    Thanks,
    Mark
     
    mlabaj, Oct 13, 2005
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  2. mlabaj

    Sean Guest

    Click Tools>Options
    Click Display tab
    Click Colors

    Change the model tab background color to white
     
    Sean, Oct 14, 2005
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  3. mlabaj

    mlabaj Guest

    Thanks for the reply Sean, but that didn't work.
     
    mlabaj, Oct 14, 2005
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  4. mlabaj

    natanz Guest

    I assume you want to maintain a variety of lineweights. How are
    lineweights set for printing. typically, the ctb file sets lineweights
    bycolor. but i can imagine writing a lisp routine (or even better a
    visual basic macro) that changes all your colors to black, and sets the
    lineweight of the layers based on their former color. This would mean
    that you would have to revise your .ctb file to print lineweight
    bylayer.

    the visual basic could be event driven so the event of switching to
    paperspace, changes all your color display, and switching back to
    modelspace would bring it all back. with a lisp routine, i think you
    would have to write a special program that switches from model to paper
    space, and does all the other magic stuff you want. the problem with
    this is you might lose access to shortcut keys, and the button bar at
    the bottom of the screen that also switches model/paper.

    so not a solution, but some possible directions.
     
    natanz, Nov 11, 2005
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