pen thickness control

[Fred Pedroso]

Does anyone knows exaclly what

 

[dr_gallup]

Below is the contents of my pen table file. This produces a monochrome (black lines on white paper) output. If you want color in the file then put in values other than 0. The three numbers a Red Green & Blue content. So if you put in 0.5 0.5 0.5 you will get a shade of grey and the larger the number the lighter the shade. The scale just goes from 0 to 1.

!Pro/E geometry lines are white on the screen, plot with broad pen #2 (0.250mm)
!
pen 2 thickness .025 cm; drawing_color attention_color
!
!Everything else plots with fine pen #1 (0.125mm)
!
pen 1 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; half_tone_color
pen 3 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; dimmed_color
pen 4 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; edge_highlite_color
pen 5 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; letter_color
pen 6 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; highlite_color
pen 7 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; magenta_color
pen 8 color 0.0 0.0 0.0; thickness .0125 cm; section_color

 

[Joost_t]

At first you need to make sure you're pentable is set and
active, otherwise pro/e will use software linefonts and
you won't be able to influence anything.

The pentable given by dr_gallup is a nice example.
The color names behind the pens are optional and force a
certain line color to a pen. When not stated Pro/e uses
an internal list to map the lines to the pens.
It is advised to state half_tone_color behind pen
3 because this prevents the line scale of the dotted
lines to change along with the paper size.

For more info about line colors see the downloadable
color reference chart in this thread:
http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?
TID=44465


Edited by: Joost_t