Hi people, I needed your help, I'm using the HP Envy5000 home printer on PC / win7 and I print well in color. I hope I don't have to do this every time. As far as I can tell, all the settings are the same but it plotted as expected from the new file. So I copied my drawing and pasted it into a new drawing.and bingo, that worked. They guys issue was that it would work fine if the file was created in 2015, but not on older files that had been created in previous versions. Just to check, I tried choosing the 'monochrome' plot style.still came out in color.Īfter googling for a while, I came on a post somewhere that sounded similar. All the index colors in the plot style were set to plot as black. All the layers were set to an index color. All the objects are set to color by layer.
I was trying to access the 'plot style editor' but every time I did.it just gave me a confusing error message.Įvery setting I checked, should have meant that it would plot as black. I used a few obscure commands to convert my ctb file into an stb file. I'm not sure if this is new to 2015 but it's something I've never run into in 20 years of doing this. I have standard ACAD.I've spent a bit of time exploring the issue of color dependant plot styles vs named plot styles. Its really not as complicated as it seems, and really is a way to not have to worry about color assignments. Save as whatever color ctb file name you think appropriate, and go from there.īTW- I manage my line weights the same way. You'll have to open the multi-color swatch to find # 30 or #40, but there you go. Click on the and then go to the right and at "Use object's color" click the down arrow and choose the desired output color from the choices provided.
You'll save-as to another filename, so don't worry-becareful ). When it appears in the box as the selected choice, click the small icon-box to the immediate right to "edit" your acad.ctb. Go to the far top-right corner of the PLOT dialog and select "Plot style table pen assignments", pick the down arrow and select ACAD.ctb. I know you know where to find it, but for others who don't. This is where the ACAD.ctb file comes in. Its a simple matter of telling ACAD to use one of those colors (or any you choose, including black) as the output pen color. If I want it to stand out a little more, I use color# 30 (orange). It "looks" yellow but its visible on white paper. I use color #40 (dark-yellow) as my output pen color for yellow. Simply remap the yellow line color in your drawing to a more visible shade of yellow for your plots. If you're looking to keep the color assignments, you don't need to go to all black, change any dimension properties, or anything of that sort. RE: Autocad Line Colors Adalius (Mechanical)ĭo you want to plot all as black or would you like to retain the original color assignments but be able to see the yellow text against the white paper ? Method #2 is the quickest, if you want a B&W plot.
Autocad printing all colors as black how to#
If you don't have the button and don't know how to add it, type "matchprop" on the command line. NOTE: this will change all the PROPERTIES (text height, style, etc.) not just the color. If you have the "MATCH PROPERTIES" button on your toolbar, click that, then click the object you just changed as the go by (or "source object"), then go around the drawing clicking on the objects you want to change to match it. Your's is probably on "grayscale" or something.ģ) Right click on one of the offending objects and bring up the PROPERTIES dialog box, then change the color. It will make every object drawn as Yellow or Green plot as black.Ģ) In that same PLOT dialog box, if you select "monochrome" as the PLOT STYLE TABLE name, it will plot everything black. You can tell it to plot the Yellow and Green colors as black. (but I'm not sure if the names are the same in ACAD 2010)ġ) In the PLOT dialog box that pops up, go to the PLOT DEVICE tab, then edit the PLOT STYLE TABLE (pen assignments). I can think of 3 ways to accomplish what you want.