I am not sure if what I am attempting is possible. We have some drawings that contain no model geometry. The entire drawing is done as a sketch with some notes (yes, painfull sketching). These are simple wiring schematics. The wires are colored. I’d like to print these as PDFs, where the text and format and anything white are all black, and the wires are the color that they are sketched as. Whats tricky is that I’m trying to to take one entity type (the sketch), and plot it multiple colors. Basically deciding the pen based on color, not entity type.
I toyed with this yesterday for several hours and I’m not having much luck. I have a table.pnt in my loadpoint\text and have been reading documentation and poking at the values. Nothing seems to really make a difference. I have looked at past PTCUser posts. I have turned on the 8 pen option.
I find the documentation confusing: It makes it sound like yoi can only have on color per entity type. But right now for some reason the green wires do print green so apparently you can have different colors per entity type.
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color-Specifies color used for plotting; defines color using proportions of red, green, and blue on a scale 0 to 1. Works only on color plotters.
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<color_name>-Corresponds to the default Creo Elements/Pro color that the system assigns to a particular entity type (to access the default system colors, click View ▶ Display Settings ▶ System Colors, and then, in the System Colors dialog box, click Scheme ▶ Default.
I’m hoping someone has a pentable file similar to what I’m attempting they could share or at least some good wisdom/advice.
Thanks,
Mark Steffke
Engineering System Administrator
The Delfield Company
Manitowoc Foodservice
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