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mlabaj@jlpassociates.com · Guest

Hello,
My office is using ACAD 2000. We do all our text and dimensioning in
paperspace. The difficulty is that paperspace is in color and it is
difficult to see some of the lines, like yellow. Is there a setting/way
to work in paperspace with black text and lines on a white background
and not in color?

Thanks,
Mark

Sean · Guest

Click Tools>Options
Click Display tab
Click Colors

Change the model tab background color to white

mlabaj@jlpassociates.com wrote:

mlabaj@jlpassociates.com · Guest

Thanks for the reply Sean, but that didn't work.

natanz · Guest

I assume you want to maintain a variety of lineweights. How are
lineweights set for printing. typically, the ctb file sets lineweights
bycolor. but i can imagine writing a lisp routine (or even better a
visual basic macro) that changes all your colors to black, and sets the
lineweight of the layers based on their former color. This would mean
that you would have to revise your .ctb file to print lineweight
bylayer.

the visual basic could be event driven so the event of switching to
paperspace, changes all your color display, and switching back to
modelspace would bring it all back. with a lisp routine, i think you
would have to write a special program that switches from model to paper
space, and does all the other magic stuff you want. the problem with
this is you might lose access to shortcut keys, and the button bar at
the bottom of the screen that also switches model/paper.

so not a solution, but some possible directions.

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