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#1 James Quesenberry

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 09:07 AM

Is it possible to have the dimension lines & extensions one color and the dimension text another color?

 

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#2 Yvon Gonthier

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 09:25 AM

Your extensions can be a separate color (System or Building Options>Assign Colors) but the dimension line and dimension text are a combined unit which can't have a different color one from another.



#3 Keith Almond

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 10:30 AM

As Yvon said, No you can't. Why would you want too?


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#4 James Quesenberry

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 12:24 PM

As a draftsman, which is my training, dimension lines should be a lighter line in general so not to be confused as a drawing line. General text notes should be about the same weight as drawing lines. I'm sure there will be those that disagree but that was the way I was trained eons ago when pencil and paper were still being used.



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Posted 10 September 2015 - 01:25 PM

System Options .. Pen Setup .. Configure Print Pen Styles, .. here you set line weights for ‘pen styles’

 

System Options (same place) ‘Item Groups’ .. ‘Dimensions’ ..

.. select the pen style with the lightest line weight that you want ..

.. extensions and dim lines will be that style ..

 

Dimension Text is not affected, .. will still print as bold as other text.


.. invariably, someone will have a simpler solution.


#6 Keith Almond

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 01:40 PM

James, unlike AutoCad, Softplans colours have no relationship to line weights. The colours are purely arbitrary, and whatever works for you. You can set line weights and colours that are plotted in the pen styles that Doug has pointed you too. For instance mine looks like this:

 

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#7 James Quesenberry

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Posted 18 September 2015 - 03:05 PM

I did not see your last post until today Keith. I'm probably going to sound like an idiot here but you said "colours have no relationship to line weights". Then why do you have 4 colors set to a pen width?



#8 Keith Almond

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Posted 18 September 2015 - 08:42 PM

The colour isn't set to the pen width .... The colours and line widths are set to the PEN NUMBER. That is a PRINT PEN SETUP. The screen colours are meaningless, unless you ask the plan set to print in screen colours.

 

So when printed Pen 16 PRINTS RED at 0.2mm, and Pen 13 PRINTS BLUE at 0.2mm. So if I draw a text DETAIL NOTE which is green on the screen and set it to PEN 16, it will actually print out RED at 0.2mm on the paper. That way I can make IMPORTANT TEXT stand out on the drawing.

 

Regardless of screen colour, pens 1 - 8 print as black lines in varying thicknesses, Pen 9 prints white, Pens 10 - 12 print in shades of gray. Pen 13 prints blue, Pen 14 prints orange, Pen 15 prints green and pen 16 prints red.

 

Does this make sense now?

 

And if you're wondering why I have a pen that prints white, see this post.


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