![CAD Forum - tips, tricks, discussion and utilities for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk products [www.cadforum.cz]](/common/arkance_186.png "CAD Forum - tips, tricks, discussion and utilities for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk products [www.cadforum.cz]")
CAD FORUM - TIPS & TRICKS | UTILITIES | DISCUSSION | BLOCKS | SUPPORT | HELP & ADVICE
Over 1.108.000 registered users (EN+CZ).
AutoCAD tips, Inventor tips, Revit tips, Civil tips, Fusion tips.
Try the updated Units converter and the new precise Engineering calculator.
New AutoCAD 2026 commands and sys.variables and env.variables,.
Discussion forum
?CAD discussions, advices, exchange of experience
CAD discussion forum - ask any CAD-related questions here, share your CAD knowledge on AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk software with your peers from all over the world. To start a new topic, choose an appropriate forum.
Please abide by the rules of this forum.
This is a peer-to-peer forum. The forum doesn't replace the official direct technical support provided by ARKANCE for its customers.
How to post questions: register or login, go to the specific forum and click the NEW TOPIC button.
|
Dimension Color
Post Reply 
|
| Author | |
HeavyMetal 
Newbie 
Joined: 24.Jun.2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6 |
 Topic: Dimension ColorPosted: 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?
|
|
 |
|
|
rossassociates
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
Newbie
Joined: 24.Jun.2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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
|
|
|
|
Topic Options|
Post Reply
|
|
Tweet
|
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
This page was generated in 0,164 seconds.
CADforum
Tips and tricks, support, utilities, help, discussions on AutoCAD, LT, Inventor, Revit, Map, Civil 3D, 3ds Max, Fusion, Forma, Vault, PowerMill and other Autodesk software (community support by ARKANCE). See About CADforum.
Copyright © 2025 | Advertise with us | Online privacy
