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   Often I have to plot a drawing from another work group member.  I want it to be plotted in all black for the blue print machine since other colors do not show as well.  
I have been going to the layer manager and changing all layers to black AND going to the dimstyle dialog to change the dimension's line, extension and text colors to black.
I tried to change the colors using setvar's dimclrD but that doesn't work.
I want to have a lisp program that I can run to make these changes for plotting.  I know the style name and want to override dimensions colors temporarily.  I plot then I quit the drawing without saving.
Can anyone make a suggestion how to do this with less effort. 

Heavy Metal

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HeavyMetal Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24.Jun.2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6	Topic: Dimension Color Posted: 12.Nov.2008 at 19:43
	Often I have to plot a drawing from another work group member. I want it to be plotted in all black for the blue print machine since other colors do not show as well. I have been going to the layer manager and changing all layers to black AND going to the dimstyle dialog to change the dimension's line, extension and text colors to black. I tried to change the colors using setvar's dimclrD but that doesn't work. I want to have a lisp program that I can run to make these changes for plotting. I know the style name and want to override dimensions colors temporarily. I plot then I quit the drawing without saving. Can anyone make a suggestion how to do this with less effort. Heavy Metal

rossassociates Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 20.Oct.2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 79	Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 11:13
	Which version of AutoCAD? Why not just set up a plot style, that will print everything in black, irrespective of the colour it is on the drawing? Once set up it can be used again and again.. see here : http://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=1298&PID=3562#3562

HeavyMetal Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24.Jun.2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6	Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 15:15
	I am using 2008. I do have a plot style to print monochrome (all black) for colors up to 255 and I use it most of the time. It won't work on RGB colors though but I can change them (all) in the layer manager to black. I don't know why the dims still retain their color. One other point is these drawings come from Inventor as a .idw file. Shouldn't the plot style override the dim style?

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