Printing Guide
Printing Guide
Printing Guide
Printing Guide
Printing Guide
Printing Guide
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Often, the way you work on-screen does not produce easy to read printouts. For example, you may use yellow and cyan colored lines on-screen because they are easy to see against a black background. When these same lines are printed in color on white paper, the result is not easy to read.
MicroStation lets you create pen tables that, in turn, let you change the symbology of design file elements for printing purposes. During this process, the design file is not changed in any way. The resymbolization occurs for the printed output only. Where necessary, you can import AutoCAD CTB and STB files for resymbolizing the printed output. Using a pen table you can change the symbology of elements, including:
Line Weight
Color
Fill Color
Line Style
Class
As well, you can specify text replacement, both for specific variables, such as filename and date, or for generic text items (such as a title in a border).
Pen tables can be used to resymbolize any design file for printing. Thus, you can produce several different printed outputs from the one design file, without changing an element in the design. The chapter, Print Resymbolization and Pen Tables, covers these topics.