MicroStation CONNECT Edition Help

To Map Pen Colors

  1. From the File tab, select File > Print > Print.

    The Print dialog opens.

  2. From the Print dialog, do one of the following:

    Select Resymbolization > Edit Pen Table.

    or

    Click the Resymbolization icon, and then click the Edit icon.

    The Modify Pen Table dialog opens.

  3. Click the Map Pen Colors button.

    The Pen Table - Map Design Colors to Output Pen Symbology dialog opens.

  4. (Optional) Do one of the following:

    If the dialog is opened from a new pen table or from an existing one that does not contain any pen maps, the list box is empty. Click the Create button.

    or

    From the Edit menu, select Create New Pen Maps.

    This creates the default set of 255 design-color-to-output-symbology pen maps.



  5. Do one of the following:

    To define print symbology for more than one design color, select their rows in the list box, then click the Edit button.

    or

    To define print symbology for a single design color, double-click its row.

    The Edit Pen Map(s) dialog opens.



  6. Enable or disable the pen map.
  7. (Optional) Turn on Define Print Color and click the Color button to select a print color.

    When a print color is defined, the preview color in the button control represents the effective color (with grayscale and screening applied).

  8. (Optional) Key in a print transparency percentage.
  9. (Optional) Turn on Print in Grayscale.
  10. (Optional) Turn on Screening Factor and key in a screening factor.
  11. (Optional) Turn on Define Print Width and enter a print width and print width units.
  12. Click OK to save edits to the selected design colors.
  13. Click OK to save edits to the pen maps for this pen table.