The Magic Computer Mouse (+ Audio CD)

CTB plot styles affect the lineweights only of objects that use the traditional 255 colors of the AutoCAD Color Index palette. If you want True Color, use object lineweights or named plot styles to control plotted lineweight. Plotting through thick and thin Long ago, manual drafters developed the practice of drawing lines of different thicknesses, orб lineweights, in order to distinguish different kinds of objects. Manual drafters did it with different technical ink pen nib diameters or with different hardnesses of pencil lead and varying degrees of pressure on the pencil. Because a computer mouse usually doesnБЂ™t come with different diameters of mouse balls or a pressure-sensitive button, AutoCAD and its developers had to figure out how to let users indicate lineweights on-screen and on a plot. They came up with two different ways to indicate lineweight: Б–Ўб Mapping on-screen colors to plotted lineweights. I describe this common approach in Chapter 4. Б–Ўб Displaying lineweights on-screen to match what the user can expect to see on the plot ...»