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cannot access .ctb plot styles when printing

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:59:56 GMT

I have the monochrome.ctb plot style but I cannot access it or use it. AutoCAD is only allowing me to use or see .stb files and the monochrome.stb file does not work.

Re: cannot access .ctb plot styles when printing

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:18:13 GMT

Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

Hi @Anonymous

in order to be able to use .CTB file in the drawing, this drawing should be created from .CTB based template.

In AutoCAD for Mac there are four such templates:

acad -Named Plot Styles.dwt

acadISO -Named Plot Styles.dwt

acad -Named Plot Styles3D.dwt

acadISO -Named Plot Styles3D.dwt

If you already have drawing, you cannot convert it from STB based to CTB based in AutoCAD for Mac as you can do in AutoCAD for Windows. So the only one way is to create new drawing with one of CTB based template, select all in your existing drawing, copy to clipboard and paste to newly created file.

Re: cannot access .ctb plot styles when printing

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:47:30 GMT

Thank you so much for this advice. Unfortunately this doesn't change anything for me. I still cannot access any .ctb styles from these templates. Everything looks and acts exactly the same way.

Re: cannot access .ctb plot styles when printing

maxim_k — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:07:01 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Sorry, my bad, I was wrong in my first post.
If you need to use CTB plot style table, you need to have drawing based on acad.dwt or acadiso.dwt templates. They use color-dependent plot styles (CTB).

Re: cannot access .ctb plot styles when printing

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:09:52 GMT

It worked! Thank you so much!!