Halftone Layers with Hatch

Background: I work with residential layouts and we submit one phase at a
time for review. It is helpful to remove the emphasis from parts of the
drawing by making linetypes gray or screened. This can be a long process
to break all the line work at the phase lines and color them all by entity
and still keep them on the same layers.

Request: I would like to draw a polyline boundary around the area that
would be screened and when I plot, anything inside that boundary would come
our gray (screened, halftoned....)Lineweights would still be the same.

Ben Williams
PCA

 

We need to do the same from time to time, and that's where XREF's are invaluable. Each piece is a model of it's own, then XREF'd into the master plan. Then in the master plan we can manipulate the display of each layer by XREF file to highlight any aspect required.

 

Very Nice! I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the
help.
Ben

 

ALSO, you can change your background to a color with screening at say 25%
like we do, and it will plot out lighter. I use it on ALL of our
backgrounds. I also use it for thick polylines that need to be shown as
existing, since polylines will plot out dark even if a small pen weight is
used, you can chnage it to a color, we use 31 and screen of 25%, works well.

 

Old-CADaver - you rock. That's great and easy to setup. Thanks again.
Ben