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Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:50:32 GMT

Short Version - Looking for a way not to plot table cell backgrounds

Is there a technique or setting that would allow me to have a table style that has the cell background filled BUT when I plot the layout not have the cell background plot. Throughout my design I use tables and have recently been using

shaded cells. But I do not want to plot the shading OR it would be nice if I could plot the shading as a gray scale.

I am using STB named plot styles. I guess if I was using CTB I could force the cell background color to plot a s 255,255,255

Can anyone think of a way to do this using STB plot styles?

Thanks

Tim

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

pendean — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:50:52 GMT

Create a plot style in your STB that is set to not plot at all (0% screening, no dither, no grayscale, no anything else) not an option?

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:57:13 GMT

STB properties could accommodate much of what you mention but Table cells seem to take on the plot properties of the layer the table is sitting on. As such the table is setting on a layer assigned to plot black in order to get the text and borders to plot.

There does not seem to be an independent plot setting for the cell background either for the cell itself (click select table cell, r-clck properties) OR for the background in the cell style settings.

-Tim

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:04 GMT

My work around will be to remove the cell background from the cell style. Then add a no-plot shaded hatch behind the table. Which will offer some flexibility for coloring and plotting if the need arises.

-Tim

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

MSchille-1994 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:27:16 GMT

This does not work as the layer the table resides on dictates cell background plot style

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

pendean — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:54:22 GMT

@MSchille-1994 wrote:
This does not work as the layer the table resides on dictates cell background plot style

You can change that anytime you want in AutoCAD, you are in total control 100% over the appearance: dive into customizing your layer or table cells.

for example.

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

MSchille-1994 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:04:06 GMT

@pendean but if using an .stb to plot, and the layer your table resides on is set to black, no matter what the color the table lines are set to, or the background color your cell is set to, the entire table plots black. If I set that layer to a plot style that plots color, then the settings mentioned above work fine, but unless my table layer is white, the table lines themselves will plot the layer color too, which in our case is color 13. I would then need to set the table layer color to white, which we do not want to do.

The plot style for the layer overrides any table settings.

Re: Table Cell Background Plot Settings to Make it Not Plot

pendean — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:54:26 GMT

@MSchille-1994 wrote:

...The plot style for the layer overrides any table settings.

So I demonstrated a lot of choices in the TABLE and LAYER, and all you got out of it was color?