STB and colors

[MarkytheSparky]

When I am in a drawing that is defined using *.STB

How come all my colors are set to RGB (XXX,XXX,XXX)?

whenever I make a new layer via a lisp - I have to define the color of the layer in terms of RGB.

[JerryG]

Try setting PSTYLEPOLICY to 1

[JerryG]

here is an excert from the help file;
Uses named plot styles in both new drawings and drawings created in earlier versions of AutoCAD. The drawing is plotted according to the property settings that you specify in the plot style definition. The plot style is defined in the plot style table attached to the layout. Named plot style tables are files with the file extension .stb. You can also select this option by setting the PSTYLEPOLICY system variable to 0.
This setting is saved with the drawing. Once a drawing is saved with Use Named Plot Styles as the default, you can convert it to Use Color Dependent Plot Styles using the CONVERTCTB and CONVERTPSTYLES commands. However, once you use CONVERTPSTYLES to convert a drawing from using a named plot style table to a color plot style table, you cannot use CONVERTPSTYLES to convert it back to using a named plot style table.

Hope that helps

[MarkytheSparky]

Yes - the PSTYLEPOLICY was it.

Nice call!