A few days ago I had to take down my LAN and rebuild it. (Problem was related to cable modem, not what I'm about to discuss.) While trying to bring my 750C back on line, I accidentally bumped something. I don't know what, but it wasn't the CPU or the plotter.. The first thing I noticed was that PlotPreview suddenly had a black background when it should have been white, That was rather easy to fix. But....... The plotter worked perfectly, only the #9 pen (I use color based plotting) plotted about 1.5 mm wide. The cbt table had it listed as 0.900 mm wide which was correct. I checked all the lineweights, which I don't use, and they are all set to "by Layer" which are all set to --Default. The same thing is happening on two drawings, one started prior to the incident, one after. Baffled has become my middle name. I changed the ctb setting to 0.855 mm as a work around but got the same result. I cannot see how it would be the plotter because the "color" is already transformed to a "width" by the time it leaves the computer. No? And the cbt settings are identical to the other colors except for the width.
Can anyone give me a hint where the problem might be? -- Karl (|:-{> A few days ago I had to take down my LAN and rebuild it. (Problem was related to cable modem, not what I'm about to discuss.) While trying to bring my 750C back on line, I accidentally bumped something. I don't know what, but it wasn't the CPU or the plotter.. The first thing I noticed was that PlotPreview suddenly had a black background when it should have been white, That was rather easy to fix. But....... The plotter worked perfectly, only the #9 pen (I use color based plotting) plotted about 1.5 mm wide. The cbt table had it listed as 0.900 mm wide which was correct. I checked all the lineweights, which I don't use, and they are all set to "by Layer" which are all set to --Default. The same thing is happening on two drawings, one started prior to the incident, one after. Baffled has become my middle name. I changed the ctb setting to 0.855 mm as a work around but got the same result. I cannot see how it would be the plotter because the "color" is already transformed to a "width" by the time it leaves the computer. No? And the cbt settings are identical to the other colors except for the width.
I have rebuilt the ctb file form scratch and given the Grey #9 pen a different width (0.050). Did not fix the problem. Is there a way to assign a width to a color? -- Karl (|:-{> Can anyone give me a hint where the problem might be? -- Karl (|:-{> A few days ago I had to take down my LAN and rebuild it. (Problem was related to cable modem, not what I'm about to discuss.) While trying to bring my 750C back on line, I accidentally bumped something. I don't know what, but it wasn't the CPU or the plotter.. The first thing I noticed was that PlotPreview suddenly had a black background when it should have been white, That was rather easy to fix. But....... The plotter worked perfectly, only the #9 pen (I use color based plotting) plotted about 1.5 mm wide. The cbt table had it listed as 0.900 mm wide which was correct. I checked all the lineweights, which I don't use, and they are all set to "by Layer" which are all set to --Default. The same thing is happening on two drawings, one started prior to the incident, one after. Baffled has become my middle name. I changed the ctb setting to 0.855 mm as a work around but got the same result. I cannot see how it would be the plotter because the "color" is already transformed to a "width" by the time it leaves the computer. No? And the cbt settings are identical to the other colors except for the width.
Karl, make a very simple dwg - one line or so - , using this color. Plot to file with the driver that you use for your plotter. Open the file in Word Pad (there are better editors, but this will probably be sufficient for a small file - if not, get WinVi, www.winvi.de). Search for the "PW" command(s) and check the value that comes after PW. Do you find (a value close to) your line weight? 1) yes: the problem comes after AutoCAD. 2) no: something in your AutoCAD configuration. Govert
