Steve B. Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Just upgraded from 12.5 to 2009 I'm converting assorted documents created in 12.5 or older and am having a class visibility issue. I assign certain units on a plot to a new class called Non-Plot, which is a class for units not used current, but staying hung and in Rep. I go to Tools - Organization - Classes, set NonPlot to Grey visibility. The fixtures show background grey on screen, but print with full visibility, just as background behind the pipe (position shows as a line thru the fixture). If I set the class visibility to invisible, they will disappear on the print. So how do I get the grey visibility to print as greyed ?, as in, what's different in '09 that I took for granted in 12.5 ?. Thanks in advance Steve Bailey Brooklyn College Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Take a look in the print dialogue box, Vectorworks settings. There is a percentage adjustment for "how gray is gray" It seems to vary (in my experience) with each printer. hth michaelk Quote Link to comment
Steve B. Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Yup, that's the ticket. That's new in '09 ?, I assume, as it's not in my print dialogue box for 12.5 and is something I wished for way back in 10 Still learning '09, just had a student show me the Windows trick of pressing and holding down the scroll wheel to move around the page. Found out that was available in 12. Sigh..... So far liking most of '09, refresh instruments takes twice as long and not liking that. Thanks for the help Steve Bailey Brooklyn College Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 smart@$# students... There is another trick that produces a slightly different effect. In the VP class or layer settings you can edit the opacity of that layer or class in just that viewport... I'm pretty sure that's new since v12. michaelk Quote Link to comment
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