Want to use the Land F/X CTB plot style? Download our CTB plotting files.ĬTB, or color-dependent, plot styles are settings for how the 256 available colors in AutoCAD will appear when you plot them, including the lineweight assigned to each color. If you set any object or layer to a Truecolor, it will print in that color. Our lfx.ctb treats all indexed colors as black, grayscale, or white. For more information on PC3 files, visit our documentation section on Creating Plotter Configuration Files (PC3). To make changes to existing CTB plot styles, see our Modify Existing CTB Plot Styles page.ĬTB files exist separately from plotter configuration (PC3) files. When you plot, you can then access this file to use the settings you configured when creating the new CTB file. When you create a new CTB file, you can save it to this folder. To plot with one of these styles, you'll need to access its file from the Plot Style Table menu in the Page Setup dialog box. If your office has a definite set of standards, you will need to change the Land F/X line colors to avoid conflicts between your office standard colors and the line colors presented in our software.Įach of your CTB plot styles, including the default style LFX.ctb, is stored in a file in your LandFX/Admin folder. If your office has no particular standard for plotting, you may want to consider using the default LandFX.ctb plot style. 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.CTB is the most prevalent of plotting methods in the landscape architecture world, as well as one of the foundations of our software. 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.

Autocad plot style editor