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May 10, 2017
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CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

  • May 10, 2017
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Making the Jump to Creo 4.0.

 

While plotting, the plots are coming out too light, almost like a Gray-scale.  Played with the settings, but nothing has jumped out.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

Best answer by MartinHanak

Hi,

if you want to print all drawing items in black color, then use the following pentable.

pen 1 color 0 0 0; thickness .030 cm; attention_color

pen 2 color 0 0 0; thickness .025 cm;

pen 3 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

pen 4 color 0 0 0; thickness .070 cm;

pen 5 color 0 0 0; thickness .030 cm;

pen 6 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

pen 7 color 0 0 0; thickness .005 cm;

pen 8 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

MH

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18-Opal
May 10, 2017

Hi David,

Are you using a pen table file?  If not, see if you can access this document on how to set up the pen table file:

Suggested Technique for Creating Table.pnt files and Setting Default Pens

Thanks,

Amit

May 10, 2017

I am pointing to the same Pen Table file that we've been using with Creo 2.0.

Does this need to be modified for Creo 4.0?

Thanks for the response.

May 10, 2017

Contents of 'Table.pnt'

pen 1 thickness .030 cm; attention_color

pen 2 thickness .025 cm;

pen 3 thickness .016 cm;

pen 4 thickness .070 cm;

pen 5 thickness .030 cm;

pen 6 thickness .016 cm;

pen 7 thickness .005 cm;

pen 8 thickness .016 cm;

!PEN 1 = WHITE ENTITIES (OBJECT LINES)

!PEN 2 = YELLOW ENTITIES (TEXT, DIMENSIONS, CROSS HATCHING, LEADERS)

!PEN 3 = GRAY ENTITIES (HIDDEN LINES)

!PEN 4 = RED ENTITIES (CAN USE FOR DRAWING BORDER IF YOU CHANGE THE ENTITY COLOR TO RED IN THE FORMAT FILE)

!PEN 5 = GREEN ENTITIES (SHEETMETAL)

!PEN 6 = CYAN ENTITIES (SECTION)

!PEN 7 = DARK GRAY ENTITIES (DIMMED)

!PEN 8 = BLUE ENTITIES (SPLINE SURFACE GRID)