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Let‟s say one day your plotter is broken and you need to publish to new plotter. Or you need to plot it on other office that has different type of plotter. Your previous setup will not work. Do you have to modify page setup for all files all over... Read More

If you hide an image boundary, the boundary can not be plotted or displayed and cannot be selected with the pointing device, which prevents that the image is accidentally moved or modified. Clipped images are still displayed to their specified... Read More

Controls the displaying and plotting order of overlapping objects. When you create a drawing, overlapping objects like TEXT , wide polylines (PLINE) or solid-filled polygons are displayed in the order in they are created. To change the draw order,... Read More

You can turn on and off Lineweights in a drawing use the LWT on the status bar . The plotting of lineweights is not affected by this setting. In model space, a 0-value LWEIGHT is displayed as one pixel. Regeneration time increases with lineweights... Read More

Every object has properties. Some PROPERTIES are general and apply to most objects; for example, LAYER , COLOR , LINETYPE , lineweight (LWEIGHT) and PLOTSTYLE . Most general properties can be assigned to an object by layer or can be assigned to... Read More

If you have saved specific views by name, you can restore them for layout and plotting or when you need to refer to specific details. Save a view The following settings are saved when you name and save a view : View scale, view position and view... Read More

The STYLESMANAGER command is used to display the plot style manager. Users could modify the print styles in the plot style manager. Command Access: Menu : File > Plot Style Manager Command : STYLESMANAGER Function Description: Users could open the... Read More

The CONVERTPSTYLES command is used to convert the current drawing into named plot style or color dependent plot style. Command Access: Command : CONVERTPSTYLES Function Description: The drawing could be print in named plot style or color dependent... Read More

The BURST command is use to explode blocks, converting value of attributes to text objects. Command Access : Command : BURST Menu : Express>Blocks>Explode Attributes to Text Command line prompts as follows: Select entities: Use an object... Read More

Function Description: The XCLIPFRAME system variable is used to determine whether to display or plot the xref clipping boundaries in current drawing. Type : Integer Saved in : Drawing Initial value : 2 Range : 0,1,2 System Variable Value: 0 : the... Read More