Visual Styles

[Bogbadbob658]

I've been playing about with visual styles and found that if I use anything other than 2D wireframe I lose the ability to use the CTB settings in a viewport when plotting. Is there anyway I can get the CTB setting to be applied to other visual styles as well as 2D wireframe?

[Car5858]

You can change the ctb setting in the Page Setup dialog box. At least that is the way it works in 2010.

[Bogbadbob658]

I have assigned a ctb file already but it only works when the visual style is 2D wireframe. As soon as I change the visual style it ignores the ctb file and plots the objects colour.

[Car5858]

Just checked the help file, the default is color dependent. Once a drawing is saved with Use Color Dependent Plot Styles as the default, you can convert it to Use Named Plot Styles using the CONVERTCTB and CONVERTPSTYLES commands.

[tzframpton]

Any other Visual Style other than 2D Wireframe will always disregard the CTB plot style and plot in color. I've never tried STB. I guess if you use STB, just set everything to Black and see if that works. You might have to find the RGB value and set a specific style name to that.

[rkent]

Visual Styles override plot styles except for 2D and 3D wireframe.

 

If you plot from a layout, set the viewport visual style to 2D wireframe, then use Mview, Shademode, set the viewport to hidden. Now, at least with STB, you can control the color and lineweight.