Hi all
Does anyone know how to display the contents of a viewport in gray scale in the paperspace in autocad? I can't remember how to do it and it's driving me nuts. In paperspace when I copy a viewport whose contents are grayscale, the contents of the new viewport show exactly as they do in the model space, i.e with all the ugly working colors etc. In other words how can i change that and set the properties of the newly created viewport to be gray scale? If anyone knows thanks in advance for your help. Cheers
if you want to view line weights instead of line colors go to paper space and right click on the layout tab and open the page setup manager, or do it in the file pulldown menu. then click new to create a new page setup. when the print/page setup dialogue box opens up check the box in the top right corner called "display plot styles" and whatever pen settings you have that are associated with colors will show in black or gray if you screened them.
the buttons you press and all that might be a little different depending on your version of autocad but you should be able to "display plot styles"
this will display when you have that new page setup selected as the current page setup, otherwise the lines will go back to viewing as colors through the viewport.
you can also click the LWT toggle at the bottom of your screen next to the PAPER/MODEL toggle and the line weight of the respective lines will show graphically and you can zoom in and out as if you were an eye looking at a paper drawing.
you can also go into options and change your paper space background to white so that all the lines view as black and then it really looks like drawing with graphite on paper
funkitecture thanks a lot for that, it worked. With your instructions i found an even easier way to do it, all you need to do is rightckick on the layout tab and in the page setup manager window select your layout, choose 'modify' and then 'Display Plot Styles' which then makes your paperspace drawing grayscale.
All the best.
That's great! In my version (2004LT), it was right click on layout tab, select 'page set up', choose the 'plot device' tab, and then in the 'plot style table' section there is a checkbox for 'display plot styles.' Check that. Now I can readily see if that errant freaky line is going to print in color without having to do 'print preview.'
Now, tell me again, which button makes 'chai latte'?
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Hi all
Does anyone know how to display the contents of a viewport in gray scale in the paperspace in autocad? I can't remember how to do it and it's driving me nuts. In paperspace when I copy a viewport whose contents are grayscale, the contents of the new viewport show exactly as they do in the model space, i.e with all the ugly working colors etc. In other words how can i change that and set the properties of the newly created viewport to be gray scale? If anyone knows thanks in advance for your help. Cheers
Yes there will be way's to do that, no Lisp required just knowing AutoCAD, but I will let others who know how , answer .
i only know how to see line weights (in all black) in print preview once a pen style is applied...
if you want to view line weights instead of line colors go to paper space and right click on the layout tab and open the page setup manager, or do it in the file pulldown menu. then click new to create a new page setup. when the print/page setup dialogue box opens up check the box in the top right corner called "display plot styles" and whatever pen settings you have that are associated with colors will show in black or gray if you screened them.
the buttons you press and all that might be a little different depending on your version of autocad but you should be able to "display plot styles"
this will display when you have that new page setup selected as the current page setup, otherwise the lines will go back to viewing as colors through the viewport.
you can also click the LWT toggle at the bottom of your screen next to the PAPER/MODEL toggle and the line weight of the respective lines will show graphically and you can zoom in and out as if you were an eye looking at a paper drawing.
you can also go into options and change your paper space background to white so that all the lines view as black and then it really looks like drawing with graphite on paper
funkitecture thanks a lot for that, it worked. With your instructions i found an even easier way to do it, all you need to do is rightckick on the layout tab and in the page setup manager window select your layout, choose 'modify' and then 'Display Plot Styles' which then makes your paperspace drawing grayscale.
All the best.
Strange, it didnt work in mine.
That's great! In my version (2004LT), it was right click on layout tab, select 'page set up', choose the 'plot device' tab, and then in the 'plot style table' section there is a checkbox for 'display plot styles.' Check that. Now I can readily see if that errant freaky line is going to print in color without having to do 'print preview.'
Now, tell me again, which button makes 'chai latte'?
'LTTE'
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