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PEN TABLES

im going to addto my question what is the corresponding name to sketch color (light blue) in pen table terms


ie






letter_color
yellow

highlight_color
dark red

drawing_color
white


is it



presel_highlight_color*
cyan


if it is then ptc says


* - These colors are reserved for specific purposes and may not be assigned to other entities/uses.


anyway around this? I want to change thickness of this color


can i create my own color and reference it in my pen table somehow?


or am i lost here?


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Edited by: megaladon
 
I think you are only allowed to have 4 pensin your "table.pnt"


I don't recall why this is but I checked my "table.pnt", it only has 4 pens.


Charles
 
first of all heres the ptc link on this


http://www.ptc.com/cs/cs_25/howto/plt522/plt522.htm


it looks like it may be possible to do this but im lost


Multiple attributes can be assigned per pen using the semicolon (;) as a delimiter. An exclamation point may be used to construct comments in the pen table file. Below is an example table.pnt combining the ideas described above.
<TT>!Example Pen Table</TT>
<TT>pen 1 color 0.0 0.0 0.7; highlite_color</TT>
<TT>pen 2 thickness 0.5 cm; letter_color; dimmed_color</TT>
<TT>pen 5 pattern 1.0 0.1 0.5 0.01 in; color 1.0 0.0 1.0; drawing color</TT>


<TT>does anyone currently fiddle with this</TT>
 
It's been really long time for me since I set this up.


Here is what my table.pnt looks like.


pen 1 thickness .03 cm; letter_color, magenta_color, dimmed_color
pen 2 thickness .06 cm; drawing_color, background_color, section_color, attention_color, edge_highlite_color
pen 3 pattern .2, .1 cm; thickness .03 cm; half_tone_color
pen 4 thickness .1 cm; highlight_color
 
This is interesting I've always put all my penwight using whole numbers. I've been using ProE for a long time and I've have a hard time in my printing.This truly rocks!!!!
 
charles can you explain what the .2, .1 is doing over the .03 ?


pen 3 pattern .2, .1 cm; thickness .03 cm; half_tone_color
 
That is for line font definition.
.2, .1 cm
.2 = first line segment length
.1 = first space length
cm = unit


You can have mutiple line segement length and spaces with different unit of measure.


Charles
 
the problem i was having and now solved was we use (blue curve color for dims)


and wasnt able to change the line thickness until I put in pen 1 because it is a user-defined color and defaults to pen 1


and you were right it only uses 4 pen lines


here is a map i created to help relate pen names with color names


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