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VersaCAD Tips, Tricks and News. CPL Programing and other CAD-musings. This Blog is Independently maintained by Jim Longley with no affiliation to VersaCAD or Archway. See "Introduction" at bottom. =:-} Screened Fills with VersaCAD Here's a tip for creating screened fills or lines in VersaCAD. For example, working in AutoCAD, I oft times used Acad colour 8 or 9 (Grey or light grey) for solid fills of "existing" linework. On top of that, those colours are screened or toned if you will with a 50 or 20% screen - fading them even further into the background. You can use the following tip to get the same net effect in VersaCAD. Select "Pen Table" from File on the Windows tool bar menu and click the "colors" button down in the HPGL Defaults area. No matter even if your output device is monochrome only. For each "normal 100% fill" pen/color - click the pen number, then the color swatch button and click the black tile. Repeat for each normal color. For those pen you wish to be screened fills do as above, but select one of the grey tones. (Suggestion: In VersaCAD do Output/Display/Color/Index and you can adjust the corresponding screen colour to match if you want!). Save the results as, say "screened.ptb". Now, choose Pentable from Output/pRinter for printing! Also, remember, some colours (VersaCAD color 12 for example, light yellow) will print as shaded greys anyway on a monochrome print device. Try this. Create a rectangle and Hatch it with a close space hatch (a seemingly solid fill). Make sure you assign under properties the pen number representing your screened color. But wait. draw a diagonal line across your solid hatched rectangle assigning a normal pen - then plot. I think you will be amazed by the results - by the possiblities! JimL Posted by: versacad at September 17, 2005 20:42 |
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