We desprately need the ability to set the color of a single layer to a user defined shade of gray. We have been using a work-around in our office since MiniCad 4+ to get our working drawings to look the way we want.
The gray layer by Layer Options, or by the Layer Visibility setting is not useable unless the level of grayness can be set by the user. Every printer prints grays differently (Epson vs HP, etc.). Every printer driver prints grays differently (Raster vs PostScript, etc.). Even the type of paper used will affect the shade of gray on output.
I have seen may postings on this techboard requesting user control over the shade of gray. For us, and for many other posts that I have read, the gray level arbitrararily set by Nemetschek is too light to use.
Color by class does not work since it does not work on symbol instances. A gray wall with black windows and doors does not work for us. We need everything gray.
Layer opacity is not an option for many people and is not for us as we do not use quartz imaging for other reasons.
A Viewport itself can be colored gray, but the "contents" of a viewport can not be colored separately.
Using Layer Colors is the closest thing there is, but it is not so great, as we would like to use color on other layers than our gray layer. Toggling this on and off does not allow us to see the grayed layer and a colored layer at the same time.
If we could use a layer color on a single layer, that would be ideal, if we could set the level of a gray layer, that would also be great, If we could set the color of a Layer Link, that would work, if we had an Advanced ViewPort Option to set the color of what is in the ViewPort, that would work. There ar many different ways this could be implemented, pick one.
All we want, is to be able to display the contents of a single entire layer at a color chosen by the user. This is ESSENTIAL for framing plan backgrounds among other things.
I cannot believe, that in a software as sophisticated and customizable as VectorWorks 12.5 that this feture has not been implemented, and that there is no way that it can be implemented.
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We desprately need the ability to set the color of a single layer to a user defined shade of gray. We have been using a work-around in our office since MiniCad 4+ to get our working drawings to look the way we want.
The gray layer by Layer Options, or by the Layer Visibility setting is not useable unless the level of grayness can be set by the user. Every printer prints grays differently (Epson vs HP, etc.). Every printer driver prints grays differently (Raster vs PostScript, etc.). Even the type of paper used will affect the shade of gray on output.
I have seen may postings on this techboard requesting user control over the shade of gray. For us, and for many other posts that I have read, the gray level arbitrararily set by Nemetschek is too light to use.
Color by class does not work since it does not work on symbol instances. A gray wall with black windows and doors does not work for us. We need everything gray.
Layer opacity is not an option for many people and is not for us as we do not use quartz imaging for other reasons.
A Viewport itself can be colored gray, but the "contents" of a viewport can not be colored separately.
Using Layer Colors is the closest thing there is, but it is not so great, as we would like to use color on other layers than our gray layer. Toggling this on and off does not allow us to see the grayed layer and a colored layer at the same time.
If we could use a layer color on a single layer, that would be ideal, if we could set the level of a gray layer, that would also be great, If we could set the color of a Layer Link, that would work, if we had an Advanced ViewPort Option to set the color of what is in the ViewPort, that would work. There ar many different ways this could be implemented, pick one.
All we want, is to be able to display the contents of a single entire layer at a color chosen by the user. This is ESSENTIAL for framing plan backgrounds among other things.
I cannot believe, that in a software as sophisticated and customizable as VectorWorks 12.5 that this feture has not been implemented, and that there is no way that it can be implemented.
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