Here's A Good One

That's one reason I dropped that line of investigation -- they aren't fixed
in appearance, and it seemed a bit alien to zoom in on big fat lines.

 

Tom,

We use name-based plot styles here, and can do some really neat things with
them. However, until Autodesk fully supports them with *all* their objects
they will continue to be a disappointment. The failure to support tables
(and dims) was a crushing blow, IMO.

--
R. Robert Bell

Jason, I'm with you. The named styles sound appealing from a drawing
management point of view, but I'm strongly conditioned to having a visual
cue to lineweight on screen. If the colors don't correspond to pen weight,
then I'd want to see the object lineweights displayed. So far, I haven't
seen a strong reason to make the change.

 

HI Bob,

Could you provide an example of one of those
"really neat things" ? Just lookin' for the positive
side of stb.

 

Thanks for the example

 

Robert:

I routinely adjust the plotted lineweights of dimensions via Named Styles on
both a layer and object level. Is there more that I'm not aware of?

ACAD 2005

Don

 

You cannot assign your "Text" plot style to the dimension text and then the
"Fine" line plot style to the extension lines.

--
R. Robert Bell


Robert:

I routinely adjust the plotted lineweights of dimensions via Named Styles on
both a layer and object level. Is there more that I'm not aware of?

ACAD 2005

Don

 

That's not really a problem if you can choose the font. Right?
TTF fonts ignore lineweights and you can always choose a
double stroke font.

Regards,
Doug

 

Depends if lineweight is the only issue you are concerned with. Now what if
my color presentation plot needs to have all my text in a certain color?
<Hmm>

--
R. Robert Bell


That's not really a problem if you can choose the font. Right?
TTF fonts ignore lineweights and you can always choose a
double stroke font.

Regards,
Doug

 

Hmmm... I see

Thanks,

Don

 

Help me out here. STB's can be set to use object color. The color of the
dimension text can be set to any color. It should theoretically plot any
color you want right?

Regards,
Doug

 

My style DIM_ANNO has lineweight by object and I set the extension and
dimension lineweights in the dimstyle to 0.006 and I set the layer to 0.12
which is what the dimtext then plots at.

 

Except that our "Text" style applies to several different layers with
different colors. And don't get me started on tables!

--
R. Robert Bell


Help me out here. STB's can be set to use object color. The color of the
dimension text can be set to any color. It should theoretically plot any
color you want right?

Regards,
Doug

 

<g>

 

Think beyond lineweights. What if we want to apply a different look
(colors/grayscale) to the dims by simply changing the stb?

--
R. Robert Bell


My style DIM_ANNO has lineweight by object and I set the extension and
dimension lineweights in the dimstyle to 0.006 and I set the layer to 0.12
which is what the dimtext then plots at.

 

I remember the concept first presented by Autodesk with the advent of .stbs
(floor plan, loghting, etc) but never applied the concept. Have you had
success and if so how are you applying the concept?

 

Success except where Autodesk fails to support them for objects such as Dims
(minor) and Tables (major pain).

The basic use is very similar to CTB, where the layer controls the style (as
opposed to the layer's color). But we use some blocks with tricky plot style
definitions to do stuff like my sample earlier in the thread.

--
R. Robert Bell


I remember the concept first presented by Autodesk with the advent of .stbs
(floor plan, loghting, etc) but never applied the concept. Have you had
success and if so how are you applying the concept?