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Customizing PatternMaker
setting together with your printer settings. When PatternMaker prints a pattern, it tells the
printer to print everything "one dot" wide (or two dots, or five, or whatever you have
selected). If your printer is set on a high resolution -- that is, lots of dots per inch -- the dots
are very small. If the printer is set on a lower resolution -- fewer dots per inch -- each dot is
larger. The highest resolution (very small dots) is what you want for printing certain things,
like photographs, but this can result in your pattern lines being too faint. If you encounter
this problem, try changing your printer settings before changing the line widths of everything
in your drawing.
Note: Changing the line width to 2 or higher will only be effective on solid lines. Dotted lines will always be printed
with a line width of 1.
See also:
Configure defaults
CHANGE OBJECT command
Configure: LINE STYLE
This command sets the current line style to solid line, dotted, dashed etc. Every new object you draw will be drawn
using the new line style.
There are two ways to change the line style:
Status Bar:
Use the "LineStyle" drop-down box on the status bar. Select the line style you want to use.
Configure Form:
Use the "LineStyle" field on the Program
Settings tab of the Configure form. The
Configure form is found on the Settings
menu. Select the line style you want, and
then click the "OK" button on this form to
return to the drawing screen.
Whichever way you do it, you will see a drop-down box with the different line types:
The pattern at the top is the current style. The default style is a solid line. Below are the five available types. After
you choose a line style, it remains active until you change it again, or until you restart PatternMaker.
If you want to change the line style of an object which you have already drawn, use the CHANGE OBJECT
command on the Edit menu.
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