Casting about for ideas.... We have color 255 set to 0% screening, and it's used for things like plotting margins (we have to have entities just inside the extents to get things centered on our plotter). Anyway, colors 7 and 255 look identical on the screen (we use a black background, so both are white). Not a problem for what we do in-house, but we have clients who have reassigned 255, and have had jobs go out recently where the building outlines that looked right on the screen were'nt of the plots we delivered. I'm looking for ideas on how to differentiate between the two on the screen.
At this point I'm running this:
(defun fix_non_print ( / sset)
(setq sset (ssget "x" '((62 . 255))))
(if sset
(command "_.chprop" sset "" "Color" "246" "")
)
(princ)
)
as part of my start-up suite, but it's rather limited. We've re-set color 246 to 0% screening, but I'm finding that some of our clients are using 246 for things that should print.
What I'd really like is for color 255 entities to be something really unique, maybe like what you'd have iy you drew a dashed yellow line on top of a red line to get alternating yellow and red, but anything that would differentiate colors 7 and 255 on the screen would be OK. I'd appreciate any thoughts, suggestions on how best to aproach this, code if someone else has already done this and would like to share, etc.
Thanks,
Martin