Create plot style table

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To get a better understanding of how the plot style table affects the drawing.

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In the plot style table group box, click edit

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to open the plot style table editor dialogue.

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This dialogue has three tabs,

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general table view and form view.

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Each provides a different way of looking at the plot style table settings.

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Switch to the table view tab

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across the top row. You can see the 256 colors.

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As you scroll through the table,

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you can see that the color black has been assigned to all the colors.

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Thus creating the monochrome output.

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Notice that the other settings enable you

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to control other output properties such as screening

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line type line weight and so on.

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These settings enable you to print drawings so that the output looks

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different from the appearance of the drawing as it was originally created.

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Switch to the form view.

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This tab shows the same information

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but arranged vertically.

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When you select a color in the plot styles list on the left,

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you can view and change its properties using the

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controls in the properties group box on the right.

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For example,

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in the plot styles list, select color one.

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Then

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in the property group box, expand the color drop down and change this to red,

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leave all the other colors unchanged

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so that they all continue to print in black.

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This way, anything that is red in the drawing will appear red in the printed output.

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But anything using any other color will be black in the printed output.

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This could be a useful plot style table to use for creating check prints.

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Since you do not want to apply this

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change to the existing monochrome plot style table,

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click save as

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to open a save as dialogue

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so that you can save this as a new plot style table

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name, this new plot style table

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check plot

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and then click save

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back in the plot style table editor

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on the title bar.

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You can see that you are now viewing the new check plot plot style table,

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click save and close

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to close the dialogue

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back in the plot dialogue.

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When you expand the plot style table, drop down

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the new check plot plot style table you just created appears in the list

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select ac ad dot C TB

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and then click preview.

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You can now see that the drawing will output in color,

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close the preview window,

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then click cancel

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to close the plot dialogue.