Plot Transformation
To reach this setting:
1. Click > from the main menu.
2. Click the Drawing tab.
3. In the Colors box, click Pens. The Plot Transformations dialog appears.
4. From the Plot Transformations pull-down menu, click Plot Transformations.
◦ The Edit button displays a separate Pen Format dialog in which you can set up a custom plot transformation map.
◦ The Reset button restores the default settings that you see the first time you display the Plot Transformation dialog box.
◦ The Default Color button applies a default color-to-pen assignment map.
◦ The Default B/W button applies a monochrome color-to-pen assignment map.
◦ The Default GDI button applies a 125-color plot pen color to pen assignment map.
Proceed as follows to set up the Plot Transformation map:
1. In the Plot Transformation map, click the row you want to change. This row will be highlighted.
2. Click Edit to display the Pen Format dialog box.
3. In the Pen Format dialog box:
◦ Select a "from" linetype and then a "to" linetype to which you want to map the "from" linetype. For example, if you want all dashed lines in the drawing to be plotted as dotted lines, map "from" dashed "to" dotted.
If you want to map all linetypes in the drawing to the associated linetypes on the plotter, click All Linetypes.
◦ Select a "from" color and then a "to" color to which you want to map the "from" color. For example, if you want all cyan lines in the drawing to be plotted in a custom pen color, select Cyan from the Color selection list and then select Custom from the To selection list to define that custom color.
If you want to map all colors in the drawing to the associated colors on the plotter, click All Colors.
◦ Select a "from" pensize and then a "to" pensize to which you want to map the "from" pensize. For example, if you want pensize 0.3 in the drawing to be plotted by a 0.45 pen on the plotter, enter 0.3 in the Pen Size field and 0.45 in the To field.
If you want to map all pensizes in the drawing to the associated pensizes on the plotter, click All Pen Sizes.