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Dick Eades wrote:Oh, no!! Now that it's working it's copying in the quoted posts after I edited the original.

Sorry about that!

No, not really, I was trying to post the correct syntax and accidentally linked the image. Actually, it was my bad.

Hello Dick:

Here's how I did the smaller images as links to the large images:

[url=location of LARGE image][img]location%20of%20smaller%20image[/img][/url]

Thanks, Neil. I'll correct that later when I have time. In the meantime, bear with me.

Hi all.

I've gotta use black! White works fine in other programs, but for some reason, when I'm in cad, it has to be black.

I used black or a very dark green or blue, unless using the projector at a client meeting. At meetings I usually switch to white to make the lines show up better. Sometimes I need to do a "change/color/all" window to make light cyan, yellow, and others show up better in a temp/copy file of the cad file.

No need to do that, just load a different rgb file. Prepare one that looks good on a white background and save it for the presentations.

Thanks Dick. I knew there should be some easy way around the problem, just hadn't taken time to think it through.

I converted from a black background to white and had to be able to use a huge legacy of symbols that would have been difficult to redefine just in order to change their colors, so the easiest solution was to develop a custom rgb file that allowed those colors to remain assigned to their respective plotter roles and yet look appropriate on a white background. My solution was posted earlier here.

Dick Eades wrote:No need to do that, just load a different rgb file. Prepare one that looks good on a white background and save it for the presentations.

How do you do that? My Tools>ColorPalettes dialogue box only has SaveAs, Edit, OK, and Cancel buttons, no Load button. Page 174 of the DataCAD 11 manual shows a Load button, but, mine looks like the one on Page 30 of the What's new.. manual.

Is there an datacadwin.ini entry I'm missing?

I would like to change palettes for a presentation on Thursday, I guess I can always change the ini.

Hi Daniel.

It took a second for me to find that too. Actually, there isn't a load button. Just use the drop-down arrow to show the list of .rgb files, then select the one you want. ...You may need to refresh your screen.

Steve Baldwin wrote:Hi Daniel.

It took a second for me to find that too. Actually, there isn't a load button. Just use the drop-down arrow to show the list of .rgb files, then select the one you want. ...You may need to refresh your screen.

Doh!! Never occurred to me. Thanks for the help.

I use 0 0 255 Blue. I find it much more relaxing for the eyes than either black or white

I use a real dark blue, like the old white line-on-blue blueprints. It's just "blue"-enough to see sensed as a plane...rather than staring into a black endless Abyss. And it's neutral enough not to throw any of the std. colors off.

On my monitor I don't use Blue or Dark Gray anyway, and I rarely use Magenta.

Dick Eades wrote:...I notice that Neil has a smaller picture with a link to a larger one. How do you do that?

Hello Dick,
Try to use PNG format. It is browser friendly. Which means it will fit the window size and allow the swap between little and bigger image.
Additionaly PNG is a great solution because it doesn't loose quality on the image as JPG does.

Thanks,
Miguel