Thanks very much to Steven for his question.Do you have any advice for Steven on plotting and lineweights with AutoCAD? Please leave a comment.Ĭheck out ‘ AutoCAD Plotting 101‘ for a basic introduction printing your AutoCAD drawings. Allen has this topic covered in his post ‘ Plot with color without changing the Plot Style Table‘ Over at.

If you do need to plot in colour, the simplest way is to to set the Layer colour to a ‘True Color’ – this is not mapped in the pen table, so AutoCAD will plot it in colour. VB.NET Imports Imports Imports Imports ' Creates a new page setup or edits the page set if it exists Public Shared Sub CreateOrEditPageSetup() ' Get the current document and database, and start a transaction Dim acDoc As.

Plotting some parts of your drawing in colour This is installed on every users machine by default, so it needs very little managing. The simplest set up I have found for effective plotting is to set all of the line weights to ‘By Layer’ and plot directly using the standard AutoCAD ‘Monochrome.CTB’. Plot styles, CTB’s and STB’s can be very powerful – but in the end they can become simply one more dang thing to manage…

So what do I have to add? – Keep it simple ) With remarkable serendipity Mark S.Sadler recently posted a great explanation of AutoCAD Plot styles and line weights on his ‘Best CAD Tips Blog’. Am I dreaming? AutoCAD Plot Styles and Lineweights Q & A It would be wonderful if there were a method using only one CTB.

Do you think I should have a CTB (i never use the other method) for every scale I print it? And if so which line weight category should I be using depending on the scale? I draw in 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 or 25, 1:50, 1:100, and 1:200. I’m a young architect starting up my own firm this has always been a problem. In the Plot Style Table Editor, Form View tab, under Plot Styles, select a plot style and edit the settings. Under the Active Plot Style Table, select the plot style table file you want to change. Click Application menu Print Edit Plot Style Tables. I have a question for you for an efficient method to use regarding line weights and scale. How do I change the plot style in AutoCAD 1. I received a great question this week from Steven:

Autocad plot style for 2016