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Control How Objects Are Plotted | 645
In the Plot Style Table Editor under Virtual Pen #, you can specify a virtual
pen number between 1 and 255. Enter 0 or Automatic to specify that
AutoCAD should make the virtual pen assignment from the AutoCAD Color
Index (ACI).
When you create a plot style table, it is important to remember that it can be
used with many different plotters and that the plotter and mode determine
what parts of the plot style table are enabled.
■ When using a pen plotter with user assigned pens, the virtual pen number
and any color assignments are ignored.
■ When using a pen plotter with automatically assigned pens, pens are
selected based on entity color and entity lineweight. Virtual pen numbers
are ignored.
■ When using a raster plotter in raster mode, the physical pen number and
the virtual pen number are ignored.
■ When using a raster plotter in virtual pen mode, everything except the
virtual pen number is ignored.
Note If you use another application to process your plot files after creating
them in AutoCAD , and you modify the pen attributes, plotting without using
virtual pens results in pen numbers in the plot file having no simple relationship
to object colors in AutoCAD. This makes it difficult to apply additional pen
attributes.
To specify a virtual pen number
1 From the File menu, choose Plot Style Manager.
2 Double-click the plot style table that you want to modify.
3 In the Plot Style Table Editor, Form View tab, select the plot style you want
to change and choose Virtual Pen.
4 Under Virtual Pen #, enter a number between 1 and 255 or enter 0 or Auto-
matic to have AutoCAD assign the ACI color of the object you are plotting
to the virtual pen.
5 When finished, choose Save & Close.
You can edit properties for multiple plot styles while in the Plot Style Table
Editor.
Command line
STYLESMANAGER