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![]() Posted: 22.Dec.2011 at 19:53 |
AutoCAD provides the ability to assign how things plot/print such as lineweight, color, dithering etc. using a feature named Plot Styles. You have the choice to use the default color-dependent or named plot styles, but your drawing can only be one or the other.
It can be debated as to which is better but I will leave that for you to decide which works best for you and the people you exchange DWG files with. About 95% use CTB most likely because that is not only the default but the way they have always done it. If you want to share your reasons for using one plot style method over the other please feel free to post a comment to this blog post. AutoCAD comes with drawing templates for both CTB and STB drawings. If you need to convert an existing drawing from one to the other you can use the following commands at the AutoCAD commandline. To Convert a CTB drawing to STB use the command CONVERTCTB More on the two plot styles:
AutoCAD Online Help on Plot Styles Use a Page Setup to Specify Plot Settings Some visual flashback on the evolution of color in AutoCAD Here is the early AutoCAD ACI colors. The current True Color Wheel with 16.7 millions colors. Luckily we do not create 16.7 million pens in the CTB plot style dialog! Cheers, Go to the original post... |
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