PYTHA 26 - New Pen Settings

PYTHA 26 - New Pen Settings

PYTHA 26 comes preloaded with a number of different Pen setups to choose from, depending on your User Interface settings. You can also create your own customised Pen settings to export for use on other computers. The following video details how to switch between the different Pen setups, change the Pen settings to suit your needs, and Export a customised setup. A summary of the video steps is included below. 
  1. Launch PYTHA 26 - click the PYTHA desktop icon, or run "py_Zentrale.exe" from C:\Program Files\your current PYTHA version
  2. Open the Lines menu
  3. Select "Pen 1" from the Pen section
  4. In the Pens dialogue click the "Manage..." button to display the preloaded Pen setups
  5. Select a setup from the predefined list to apply it
  6. Click the Manage button again to select a different Pen setup
  7. Click on the left hand "Screen color" column to change the pen colour displayed in Model
  8. Click on the right hand "Plotter color" column to change the pen colour displayed in Plot pages
  9. Click the Manage button and select "Make default" to set the currently selected Pens as your default
  10. Click the Manage button and select "Export" to create a .pypen file that can then be loaded onto other systems


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