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Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part
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Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

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Hi is it possible to print a colour SW Drawing? So far I can print colour assembly drawings but not template drawings
Thanks
yvonne

RE: Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

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Shaded View will print in color (assuming you have your printer setup right).  If you want to keep a wireframe display, but have each component in a different color then you'll have to separate the components in different layers.  There's a macro at:
http://www.dynebits.com
called layout.swp that will do all of this for you.

Ken

RE: Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

Do you wish to plot / print in a similar way to an ACAD line drawing?

If so, you can assign components and lines to layers and assign the layers a colour (and linetype) within the layer dialog box.

To assign a component to a layer, either right click on it in the Feature Manager (under a dwg view) and select Component Line Font, or click on the part in a view and select a layer to place it on.

Other lines (projected geometry or normal sketch lines, text, dims etc) may be assigned colours using either the line type tools, or by assigning them to layers.

Make sure that the colour display mode button is toggled correctly.

Hope I'm barking up the right tree here...

Chris

RE: Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

You might have the print settings set to force black-and-white.  Check the Page Setup button button on the print control panel and see which radio button is set under Drawing color.

"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."--C. D. Jackson

RE: Colour printing a SW Drawing not assembly or part

kenbolen,
the web site that u 've given is not correct.  spelling mistake.
this is correct website name.
http://www.dynabits.com/
very nice web site.
they 've given some free macro and api tips also.
its really very nice... they 've given lot of links also..
thanks  kenbolen...

regards,
murugan.S
Design Engineer,
GlobalSoft Pvt Ltd,
New Delhi, INDIA,
murugan_subham@yahoo.com

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