– this is practical for editing named plot style table files. You can change properties of specific plot styles (without having to select the desired style first) in the Table View. Use the Form View when you want more than one plot style to have the same setting(s) (practical for color dependent styles). The plot style table editor can be viewed in two different formats.
– you can only edit table file types (ctb or stb) that the active drawing was set up to use if you pick Edit on Page Setup. You can also pick the Edit button in the Page Setup dialogue box to edit the plot style table file attached to the current page setup.
#Autocad plot style dither how to#
In STB you can establish a plot style name of any name, lets say BW 0.20 which is black and white width of 0.20, BW 50% would be 50% dithered, so on.Tutorial how to work With Plot Styles in AutoCAD STB makes this much more logical but there may be good reasons why you can't use STB's. Now you have to set your layer color to pen number 100, in the CTB you set pen 100 to plot black, maybe color 110 is set to plot black and gray scale of 50%, so on. What you have to do with CTB is pick some color numbers that will plot black, for the sake of argument lets say you pick numbers 100 to 110. You can't change the plot style name in the layer manager as it is tied to the layer color, if your layer color is red then the pen color red is set for you. With CTB things are a little counter intuitive. However, in the layer manager the plot style is grayed out and I can't change it.
Othere I'd like to display in colour but print in the grays of the grayscale. However, I'd like to set individual layers to display as the layer color yet print black. For example, My ctb is grayscale, and generally the prints work fine. I would like to have layer colors in models space, and alter the plot style for the individual layers. I'm trying to revise my template that I use as a base for all drawings.