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Partial Screening

Anonymous
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I am working on a project which will have phases for future developments. I would like to show the phase of the development the will be built later in screened (lighter) mode. I tried overlaying two duplicate drawings with different pen sets on the Layout sheet with the top one partially covering the one below. When plotted I could not see the difference. I realized the reason being I had to choice of Plot with Color or Grayscale or Black & White selection only. Is there any another way around this?

AC10 on PowerBook with OS10
HP Design Jet
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DaveTex wrote:
I tried overlaying two duplicate drawings with different pen sets on the Layout sheet with the top one partially covering the one below. When plotted I could not see the difference.
Really? We do this all the time. You should be using a "black" pen set and a "gray" penset -- try printing (not plotting).
MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max, 96 GB of RAM
AC27 US (5003) on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.2
Started on AC4.0 in 91/92/93; full-time user since AC8.1 in 2004
Anonymous
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Laura:
I did not have to try Print instead. In the Dwg. Selection Setting I chose "Screened Pens" under Pen Set instead of "Grayscale Pens" under Color.
It worked.

Thanks for your response.