Line Color to Lineweight Configuration

 

If your office has no particular standard for color-to-lineweights, you might consider using the default Land F/X color-to-lineweights. If your office has a definite set of color-to-lineweight standards, you will want to change the Land F/X line colors so that there are no conflicts with the line colors presented in Land F/X.

 

The basic process, which is detailed below, will be to change the colors of all of the drawings within Land F/X:

§	Use the Land F/X Line Color Worksheet to indicate which of the Land F/X colors that conflict with your current office standards, i.e., colors that you also use, but that you plot at a different lineweight. If some of our colors are not used by you, just leave them as they do not conflict.

§	Use the Land F/X Convert Colors function located in Land F/X Preferences to make the noted changes on the drawing LFX Pens.dwg located in the LandFX / Administration folder.

§	Revise and change the LFX.ctb plot style table by combining your office standard plot styles into this table, and re-naming it to a new plot style table combining your office color plotting standards into the Land F/X plot style.

§	Plot the changed LFX Pens drawing with the revised ctb file that you created in the previous step.

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If the plotted LFX Pens drawing correctly represents the different line weights, run the Convert Colors function again, but on All Blocks of the Land F/X drawings. If there are obvious errors, review the plot style table for each color to see what the problem is, then re-plot the LFX Pens drawing until it plots correctly, and then run the Convert Colors function on All Blocks.

 

Layer Color and Plotting

One of the first objectives you will want to do is to get an understanding of the Land F/X line colors and plot styles, and to determine if you need to utilize the Land F/X Change Colors function to change the colors used within the Land F/X system, so that there is no conflict with your current office color and plotting standards.

 

When you install Land F/X, an AutoCAD ctb plot style table, named LFX.ctb, will automatically be added to your AutoCAD’s Plot Style Table search path, and thus will be available as a plot style option when you are in AutoCAD’s Page Setup viewing the Plot style table (pen assignments).

 

Land F/X Lineweight Conventions

Open the drawing LFX Pens located in the LandFX / Administration folder. A plotted view of this drawing is indicated on Page 3 of this document. This drawing indicates the various colors Land F/X uses for its lineweights. The basic approach to the Land F/X lineweight colors include:

§	There are seven lineweights for solid (black) lines.

§	The solid line colors have at least two colors for each lineweight.

§	There are at least four colors for the commonly used solid lineweights.

§	No two colors within the same lineweight should be very similar in color and hue.

§	There are about 18 colors used for irrigation pipe, which are color coded for size.

§	There are three basic screened lineweights, with at least five percentage of screening levels for each lineweight.

§	There are three non-plot lineweights, which have a screening of “0” so that if the color is not indicated as not plotting, it still will not plot.

 

Plot the Drawing “LFX Pens”

To review the Land F/X color plot style, open the drawing LFX Pens located in the LandFX / Administration folder. Plot the first Paper Space layout tab, which is an 8½ X 11 size sheet, using the LFX.ctb plot style table. After plotting, review the Model Space colors of this drawing.

 

This drawing indicates Solid Black plotted line colors in six groups of line weights, starting with 0.13mm (0.005”) to 1.00mm (0.040”), and the various line colors Land F/X uses for each line weight.

 

This drawing also indicates the line colors and weights used for drawing the different sizes of irrigation pipe, and different line weights used for a variety of screened (or half-toned) lines or areas.

 

This drawing will give you an indication of the Land F/X approach to line color and weights, and can be an aid if you are going to create some functional plans or drawings using the Land F/X system.

 

If your office has line color-to-lineweight standards, with a related ctb file, you can change the Land F/X layer line colors so that there are no conflicts with your office standards. This process is defined in the section Line Weight Configuration at the end of this document.

 

The LFX Pens.dwg drawing, when plotted, should look similar to the following:

 

The plotted drawing “LFX Pens.dwg” located in the LandFX/Administration folder.