Plotting Edit plot style in layers?

[CalypsoArt]

I'm trying to revise my template that I use as a base for all drawings. I would like to have layer colors in models space, and alter the plot style for the individual layers. For example, My ctb is grayscale, and generally the prints work fine. However, I'd like to set individual layers to display as the layer color yet print black. Othere I'd like to display in colour but print in the grays of the grayscale. However, in the layer manager the plot style is grayed out and I can't change it. Suggestions?

[rkent]

I'm trying to revise my template that I use as a base for all drawings. I would like to have layer colors in models space, and alter the plot style for the individual layers. For example, My ctb is grayscale, and generally the prints work fine. However, I'd like to set individual layers to display as the layer color yet print black. Othere I'd like to display in colour but print in the grays of the grayscale. However, in the layer manager the plot style is grayed out and I can't change it. Suggestions?

 

With CTB things are a little counter intuitive. 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.

 

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. 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.

 

STB makes this much more logical but there may be good reasons why you can't use STB's.

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.