Plotter Problem

[Volunteer]

How do you get the line patterns to scale down on a Hp 1050 C plotter?
Phantom lines look like solid lines and center lines only have one short dash.

 

[skraba]

With pen table mapping file, where you define length of the segmented lines, e.g.:

pen 3 pattern 0.3 0.3 cm; thickness .015 cm; color 0 0 0

where values after the "pattern" are lengths of segmented line (phantom or center lines).

 

[Volunteer]

Thanks for your reply. Where are the pen table files located?

 

[skraba]

Open Printer Configuration window (Print > Configure) and then Printer tab. There should be path to the pen table file in the Table File entry box.

If this is not the case, you can create it by yourself (it's plain text file) and set the path to it in Table File box. To do that, see Help Center > Interface Guide under "pen mapping" or set pens like in above example for pen 3.

Syntax:
pen [pen_number] pattern [first_line_length] [second_line_length] [units]; thickness [line_thickness] [units]; color [RGB_values]

where
- pattern sets the line segments lengths for non-continuous lines
- units are in mm, cm, in,...
- thickness is mapped thickness for the line (if you want thinner/thicker line than default)
- color is mapped color of the line (e.g. yellow to black - color 0 0 0)

 

[Volunteer]

Thank you for your reply, it was very helpful.