I need to create for a testprint 5 files with different lineweights, each file should consist an increased lineweight on all layers by a certain thickness. Is there any easier way to do it than just manually for each layer? Or do I need to write a special script for that?
View 5 RepliesI'm having problems plotting to PDF's and maintaining the line weights etc.. that I get when I print to my plotter. It seems like Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 converts based on the color of my pens.... the lighter color value i.e. yellow, the lighter the grey tone. white is darkest. It ignores my lineweight settings, so I have no control on the quality of the output. Is it possible to get it to use the .ctb files that my plotter uses when creating it's PDF? I'm using AutoCAD LT 2010.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like make a config file for my script that i would like to put in the %appdata%adobe folder.
How can i reah the value of %appdata% inside javascript?How do i create and read files?
I am currently reading the Extendscript javascript toolsguide but i cant figure out how to create a file:
Should not this code create a file in C: directory?
Fille = new File('C: est.txt');
Fille.write("Testwriting!");
Fille.close();
Illustrator CC
I am having a difficult time trying to create a new swatch libray of patterns from multiple png files. The way I am doing this is very slow and repetitive and seems silly for a tool as advanced as the latest CC suite including illustrator.
What it seems I must do is open all the png files in Illustrator, creating multiple workspaces, drag one png file into the swatch window, then save that window as a library, close the existing window to reveal the next png file, open the user library I just created, drag the next image into the currently active swatch window, then drag the previous swatch/s from the user library into the current active swatch window, resave and replace the user defined swatch library (now with two images in there)fromthe updated current active swatch panel/window, close the existing workspace to reveal the next image file, and then repeat the process again, slowly building the user defined swatch library up by adding one image at a time and then adding back into the Swatch panel the previously built up library of swatches again one at at time. (you can select all from the existing user defined library and drag over into swatch panel, but this creates at least one duplicate on each cycle for as soon as you click on the first swatch in the library, it adds itto the current swatch panel and then when you select all swatches to drag across it includes the first swatch and copies it again)
This is a very slow process to build up a swatch library. For some reason you cannot drag swatches directly into the user defined library you have created, only into the active swatch window for each workspace. I searched the web and forums for answers but could find none. There must be an easier way, just can't find it.
Ideally, the best option would be a swatch window option that allows the import directly from a list of selected files in the finder.
Automated AI so much so that it can read instructions from an external source like xml or txt and automatically creates files and folders.
For example we have something like this:
File1
Hello
Font: Myriad
Size: 22
Colour: Pantone 254C
Image 1.jpg (link)
Source: Image1.png (link) clipart1.eps (link)
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File2
and so on.
I want AI CS5 to:
1. create an eps File1, create a folder named File1, put File1.eps in it
2. type the text Hello, apply Myriad 22pt and PMS 254 to it, centre it to the artboard
3. Place all jpegs, pngs, eps source files on the artboard and embed them.
4. Save the file as eps legacy version 10, close the file and move to the next file.
I created an Action to batch export a folder of .ai files to create 300dpi .png's of the .ai file's artboard. I did this by simply recording "Export...as png" with my desired settings then Batch running the Action on desired folder of .ai files. The files were successfully exported, the trouble is that the exported files lack a .png file extension. My intent is to take these PNG files and merge them into a single PDF using Acrobat Pro. Unfortunatly, without the .PNG extension, Acrobat Pro does not recognize the file types and does not let me use the Combine Files feature on them. Going back and manually adding a .png at the end of the exported files defeats the time-saving purpose of Batch Processing all together. Is there something I am missing or doing incorrectly? I have included screenshots of 1) My Batch Action settings 2) folders showing files without .png extension and 3) visual of what I see when I am trying to combine PNGs into a PDF.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to output a drawing from Autocad MAC 2011 to a PDF with lineweights however it only outputs the drawing with the different layer colors and I have assigned each layer a specific lineweight, I have tried making a plot style and I have tried printing in greyscale and I still cant figure it out. Any simple step by step process to plotting in lineweights!
View 0 Replies View Related I've been using Autocad as a student since the 2007 version and haven't had this problem (in any case, I've been able to solve it before).
Now, I have run into the problem of the lineweights not plotting - they are all the same thickness.
I'm using ctb plot styles and I have the lineweights set up in layer properties...
And have lineweights enabled in plot...
And in the plotstyles editor...
And the colour tables as well...
In the end... all the lineweights are the same.
I have LT08 and have one drawing using linestyles and colors to determine lineweight for plotting that just will not plot anything other than a "light" lineweight. I have tried making an all new .cbt, existing .cbt's, changing ALL colors to a heavier weight etc. Nothing is working.
Plot preview is light lineweight, plotting to pdf is light and plotting to the plotter is light. I am not having this problem with any other drawings so there must be something set somewhere in this one file. I did not create the model. Someone else did but I did setup the layout sheet, just like I do other drawings.
I would like to print a drawing with its ctb. file to a format that allows me to import it into illustrator without losing the set lineweights in the original Autocad drawing.
I've tried it once using a pdf writer, but when imported into illustrator it reverts to one line weight for all the lines.
Is there a better way of retaining the assigned lineweights (per the embedded ctb file) ?
will printing it as an .eps instead of pdf do? and how does one print to .eps?
I am a student studying architecture and I cannot seem to plot the line weights in my drawing. I'm using a dwg to pdf ploter. The plot styles I have tired, have included monochrom ctb and monochrome 1 to 50 ctb.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to plot my drawings and have all my line weights be the same in the final plot so that no line is more bold than another. I do custom home designs and am now adding in additional information that uses different colors for appliances, plumbing, etc.
I'm using the standard red, cyan, magenta, green, 252 gray scale colors, however, when I plot, all of the lines except red are thick and make the objects entirely too bold for my purposes. How do I fix this other than changing everything to red? I didn't have this problem when I worked with AutoCAD 2006 at my old company (we had drafters set up this stuff for us), but now that I'm on my own and trying to get my own plotting figured out, I'm struggling.
I attached an example for reference. It's the windows (gray scaled), plumbing fixtures (cyan), and appliances (magenta) that come out entirely too dark.
I making a glass panel with a metal trim for a bank window teller family. How do I control the lineweights for the metal profile?
It seems by default wide lines are being used. I don't see an option in the family editor to pick thin lines.
I edited a block in a drawing which had exactly the lineweight I wanted in my layout. After I edited it I lost the lineweight. If I try to change the lineweight for that layer it only affects the attribute. What I did and how I can get it back the way it was?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen you set the lineweight the result is only viewable when you print the drawing, however how is it possible to view the lineweights when I export the drawing to pdf as well.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm wondering if there's a way to change/add to the list of available lineweights in the dropdown lists in the layer manager. I want to have a thickness of 0.125", but that isn't available. I found that if I issue the STYLESMANAGER command, I can edit lineweights in existing .ctb/.stb files, but I don't know now to transfer that to be available in an existing drawing. Can I just assign a ctb/stb style to my drawing?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAm configuring many page setups and when printing/plotting there is a checkbox to scale lineweights. Was wondering what the consensus is on this. Should the check scale line weights box be checked, or not?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with lineweights. It shows up too dark whenever I plot to both pdf and the printer (Kyocera KM-2560 KX). Ive tried adjusting the ctb file (changing thicknesses of colours) but to no avail. This problem does not occur for my colleagues, with exactly the same ctb file. So is it a general autocad setting problem?
View 2 Replies View RelatedVersion: Civil 3D 2012 and use CTBs for our plotstyles.
I'm working on a fairly large project that requires an excessive amount of base drawings. We frequently will be asked to have a drawing made and issued in a morning. To make sure we can constantly throw these drawings together quickly we've setup an xref system of all our base mapping data. (I'm sure this is a common thing but its the first time I've been exposed to it).
A lot of these drawings will have polylines with global widths on them. The problem with this is that global width doesn't always work so well when changing scales (we frequently bounce from 1:100 to 1:20,000) or when you just don't need the line to be so thick.
Two questions:
1) Stop using global widths on lines in the base drawings and switch to a method of setting lineweights of the xref layers when you xref in a drawing.
2) find that it ends up rounding off the end of the lines. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
I'm trying to get my HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer to print my drawing when I have set the lineweights. Apparently, it won't show the heavier lines, consequently, all of the lines are the same width.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhy in some of my drawings I am not able to select the "scale lineweights" check box in the plotting dialog? I am using 2002. I can't seem to find any differences in these dwgs?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue with some of my drawings where the all the lineweights appear much too thick on the screen. When I plot the drawing or look at a print preview the lineweights appear correct, but in model space they appear much too thick.
I found the option to show / hide lineweights, and when I toggle this option from show to hide it seemingly fixes the issue, but when I pan or zoom on the drawing the think lineweights come back.
Why this is happening, even with show lineweights enabled they should not be displaying this thick as every line on the drawing is default lineweight, and the default is set at 0.25mm, I have the exact settings on different drawings but they dont have this display issue.
Is there any easy way to globally edit lineweights of certain components? Several of the components look fantastic at one scale and terrible at another. Some we just need to lighten but I cannot find where to edit them. I can always (of course) edit the block once it is inserted or edit layers in each drawing but would prefer a more permanent solution.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an MEP dwg with 3d geometry that I would like to take a lineweighted section through.
I successfully made the section by importing the cad file into a generic mass, but I cant seem to get the lineweights to show up.
I've tried setting overrides and object styles for generic models, but it doesnt register the cut line, only the projection line style.
I also tried importing as an IFC, which also converts the file to generic models, but no dice.
I'm using ACADLT 2012;
I can't see the means by which I can plot proper lineweights to my laserjet. And when I try to plot to pdf file I get the line colors instead of a weighted line.
How do I set up my drawing for correct monchromatic lineweights ?
why my lines are thick when I zoom in on screen yet they become "normal when zoomed out" seams to me that lineweighs are being displayed on screen, a variable setting perhaps?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm working with xrefs. As of yesterday, the "Display Lineweight" option was checked on all the files.
My process is, open the xref; find out the layer it (the object in question) is on, adjust that layer by using the LA command. I click on "open xref" and make my adjustments to the lineweights at that point. Then I click save changes, and a dialog box appears saying, this will save all the edit changes. At that point, (after indicating I want to save the changes,) the file reverts back to it's pre-edited state, before the lineweights were adjusted.
If the "Display Lineweights" option is checked, in a normal file, everything works as it should.
I have another question: My lineweights are shown in model space but not in layout. When I print/plot the line weights are missing.
How do I show the line weights in layout so it prints right?
I am using AutoCAD 2011 for Mac.
I am running Inventor 2013 Professional 64 bit. When I print to an Adobe PDF I have selected "Remove object line weights". The problem I am experiencing is that the result is the same whether it is checked or not. The result I would expect is that the object line weights won't display on the pdf.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am trying to standardize the company I just started with and I believe the Named Plot Styles are definitely the way to go, rather than Color Dependent.
Now, the question I have is when I created my Named Plot Styles, I created multiple styles with different lineweights. I plan on creating a base template with layers and have the lineweight based on the plot style. Is the correct way to handle it? Because we work for a certain large state DOT and they do things slightly different. They have only 2 named plot styles (existing, proposed) and change the lineweight directly in layer rather than the lineweight being dependent on the plot style. Now truthfully, there is no difference that I can see in the plot styles they created except for the description.
in Inventor I use my own library with different layers, font types, colors, lineweights etc. In Inventor drawing it works well. But after exporting to DWG only colors of different layers stay the same; all fonts, lineweights change to one (maybe some kind of default) font, lineweight.
How could I repair that, I need drawing in DWG to look like the same as in Inventor. I have tried to use "Configuration" in DWG file exporting option and I have created my own configuration, but it did not work... I simply do not understand how it works. If the "Configuration" in DWG file exporting option is the clue -