2000i - Color Mapping Table

I have 2 plat styles setup, STYLE.CTB and STYLE.STB. When a user switches a drawing from .CTB to .STB, the Plot Styles assinged to the layers are all screwed up, i.e. Layers that should be using THICK plot style are using THIN, etc. I am sure there is something screwed up the the COlor Mapping Table for STYLE.CTB. After about a 30 minute search through ACAD wonderful help file, and finding absolutely nothing about changing the Color Mapping Table, I have turned to this Forum for Help. PLease advise on how to change the COlor Mapping Table. Thanks in advance.

 

BYLAYER. Layer 1 - THICK, Layer 2 - THIN, Layer 3 - MED, etc. When a .CTB drawing is switched to .STB, this gets screwed up. Layer 1 - THIN, Layer 2 - MED, etc.

 

Must be a tough Question???!!! I'll try again. How do you change an AutoCAD 2000i Color Mapping Table? Thanks

 

Do you mean the ctb or stb?



 



Dave Alexander



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Must be a tough Question???!!! I'll try again. How do you change an AutoCAD 2000i Color Mapping Table? Thanks

 

STB. When I convert drawings from .CTB to .STB, and select my "STYLE.STB", it associates the wrong PLot Styles (Thin, Thick, etc.), to layers. For example, Layer 1 should be using Plot Style THICK, however, it is assinged THIN, etc...

 

I haven't done alot of converting of plot styles from ctb to stb but, I assume that the plot styles in your "style.stb" are correctly set according to "thin, thick, etc".



As far as the plot style assigned to the layers, I think your are just going to have to reset the plot styles to the appropiate layers.



 



Dave Alexander



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STB. When I convert drawings from .CTB to .STB, and select my "STYLE.STB", it associates the wrong PLot Styles (Thin, Thick, etc.), to layers. For example, Layer 1 should be using Plot Style THICK, however, it is assinged THIN, etc...

 

Thanks for your input. When the drawing is converted to .STB, Layer1 Plot Style get sets to THIN, Layer2 PLot Style gets set to THICK, etc...all of which is wrong (Layer1 should be THICK etc.). Something in the COlor Mapping Table is set to these incorrect values and you would think you could change them. Otherwise, what purpose do they (Color Mapping table) serve?????? I can go in and change all the Layers Plot Styles manually, but what's the point of the Color Mapping Table? IS this a bug? Is there some way to change it? Is this fixed in 2002 or 2004?

 

I am still confused. In the stb, the plotstyle name is Layer 1 or is the plotstyle name THIN?



 



Dave Alexnder



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Thanks for your input. When the drawing is converted to .STB, Layer1 Plot Style get sets to THIN, Layer2 PLot Style gets set to THICK, etc...all of which is wrong (Layer1 should be THICK etc.). Something in the COlor Mapping Table is set to these incorrect values and you would think you could change them. Otherwise, what purpose do they (Color Mapping table) serve?????? I can go in and change all the Layers Plot Styles manually, but what's the point of the Color Mapping Table? IS this a bug? Is there some way to change it? Is this fixed in 2002 or 2004?

 

Here is an example...Drawing Layers = L1, L2, L3, L4, etc...I want Layer L1 to use plot style THIN, layer L2 to use Plot Style MED, Layer L3 to use Plot Style THICK...Using PLot Style Table PLOT.STB. This is how my typicaly drawings are setup. When I get a drawing which is in the .CTB format (plotting by COlor), I use CONVERTPSTYLES command to convert it to a .STB drawing. It asks to assign a .STB PLot STyle Table and I select my default PLOT.STB. Now the Layers are as follows...Layer L1 is set to use Plot Style THICK, Layer L2 is set to use Plot Style THIN, etc ...all this is wrong. I believe it is using the Color Mapping Table which is in the PLOT.STB...My question is...How do I change the COlor Mapping table within the PLOT.STB file to match what I want?? I don't think I can explain it any clearer than that.

 

Okay, I finally figured it out.



 



The way it works is this way. You take a ctb drawing and use "convertctb" to create a stb that uses the same linewidths etc as the ctb.



The ctb has 255 settings but the converted stb will only as many plot styles as there are different linewidths in the ctb. Now after you have used the convertctb to create a stb of the same name, you use convertpstyles to convert the drawing from being a ctb drawing to be a stb drawing and assign  the same named stb to that drawing. Now it will assign the appropiate plot styles to the layers based on what the matching linewidths are. I think that it starts with the first color and creates a matching plot style, moves on to the next different color and then creates a plot style to match that lineweight. It does this in sequence based on color and not layer. All you have to do is convertctb the ctb for the drawing that you get into a stb. Now, go into the stb, change the plot style names to match the lineweights, THICK, MEDIUM and THIN without changing the order in the the stb. If the ctb lineweitht is slighly different than what you want for THICK, then you can rename the corresponding stb style 1 to THICK and edit the lineweight to suit your lineweight. (I think). The order of the plot styles in your stb don't matter when you apply them to your drawings but they do when you use the stb with convertpstyles.



 



Does this make sense?



 



Dave Alexander



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Here is an example...Drawing Layers = L1, L2, L3, L4, etc...I want Layer L1 to use plot style THIN, layer L2 to use Plot Style MED, Layer L3 to use Plot Style THICK...Using PLot Style Table PLOT.STB. This is how my typicaly drawings are setup. When I get a drawing which is in the .CTB format (plotting by COlor), I use CONVERTPSTYLES command to convert it to a .STB drawing. It asks to assign a .STB PLot STyle Table and I select my default PLOT.STB. Now the Layers are as follows...Layer L1 is set to use Plot Style THICK, Layer L2 is set to use Plot Style THIN, etc ...all this is wrong. I believe it is using the Color Mapping Table which is in the PLOT.STB...My question is...How do I change the COlor Mapping table within the PLOT.STB file to match what I want?? I don't think I can explain it any clearer than that.

 

All my linewights are default in the .ctb file. I have 4 different Plot Style pen widths. When I convertctb, it creates an .STB with 6 Plot Styles, none of which match the layers way I would like. Also, I only want 5 Plot Styles and there is no way to delete one of them.

 

That's interesting.



 



Could you post a drawing with ctb or e-mail it to me and I will give it a go. As far as there being 6 plot styles, the sixth should be the same as one of the others which you don't have to reuse. The convertctb should not hav messed up the plot styles assigned to the layers.



 



Dave Alexander



 



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All my linewights are default in the .ctb file. I have 4 different Plot Style pen widths. When I convertctb, it creates an .STB with 6 Plot Styles, none of which match the layers way I would like. Also, I only want 5 Plot Styles and there is no way to delete one of them.

 

Thanks for you help. I think I have figured it out. It was giving me more Plot Styles because I had a few of them (that had the same lineweight) set using different Pen #'s???. KInd of weird how this all works and there is absolutely no documentation anywhere. Once again, thanks for your help.

 

No problem. Glad you got it figured out. Answering your questions made me figure it out for myself so now I know as well.



 



I always figured you can learn as much or more by answering questions as by asking them.



 



Dave Alexander



"jbryant4" <> wrote in message news:...

Thanks for you help. I think I have figured it out. It was giving me more Plot Styles because I had a few of them (that had the same lineweight) set using different Pen #'s???. KInd of weird how this all works and there is absolutely no documentation anywhere. Once again, thanks for your help.