Can't set plotstyle for a layer

I want to write a program that will set a plotstyle name to a newly
created layer or a layer that exists. I have the routine that will
automatically set the color and line type but am unable to get it to set
the plotstyle. It will if I have already set another layer to the same
plotstyle name but if I haven't set it and it exist in the stb file it
will not set it and error on the line.

I am not looking to add to the stb file just use what is in the file. I
saw the workaround by Mike Tuersley but that is not quite what I am
looking for but when I access the dictionary there are items in the
dictionary but no variables so I am at a loss of what to do.

I am using A2K4. I wish there was alittle more help in autocad about
style based plotting.

David Urban

 

Hi David,

You may want to check out the thread "Cranky setting of layer
PlotStyleName property - any solutions?" posted back in Sept. of '01. I
think that your answer(s) may lie there.....

Jeff

 

I saw that yesterday but didn't think it applied but now that I have
slept on it I think it might. The way I look at it is the program that
Joe Funk proposed was to create a fake like and assign a style to it to
force it into the dictionary then you can assign that style to a layer.
This is a difficult way of doing it. I will play with this later
but couldn't you just add to the dictionary or reference the .stb file
to directly insert.

I am surprised Autodesk has not addressed this in the past three years
or even made it better.

David Urban