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Not able to plot as desired

abdul.raufJJ89F — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:58:32 GMT

Hi,
I want to plot everything in the drawing in black & white (including 0 layer) except one layer .
How can I do that?
Can somebody provide me the LISP for the above?

Thanks

Re: Not able to plot as desired

S.Faris — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:36:29 GMT

A LISP? If you are interested, CTB Method Details below

Create a Plotstyle as per your requirement

More details on PLOTSTYLES : Plot style table settings explained - In Depth & Detailed

HOW TO CREATE PLOT STYLES IN AUTOCAD - RECOMMENDED

Tutorial: Create a plot style (color-dependent)- Recommended

Re: Not able to plot as desired

user181 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:49:40 GMT

Hi @abdul.raufJJ89F You can set the color of the layer you want to print out in color to a true color instead of an index color. True colors always print in color.

Re: Not able to plot as desired

pendean — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:18:23 GMT

MONOCHROME plot style table is right there in the PLOT command pop-up, help yourself.

Re: Not able to plot as desired

abdul.raufJJ89F — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:11:32 GMT

I want to elaborate my problem,the only layer which I want to plot in color has 4 to 5 block each having different color and that should be plotted.But main issue I am facing is that some of these colors are common to remaining layers,so they are appearing color in plot.Apart from one specific layer(or you can say blocks present in this layer),everything strictly should be printed in Black and White (including default 0 layer) no matter if they share common colors with specific layer that I want colored.

Hoping I am clear!

Re: Not able to plot as desired

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:30:57 GMT

To expand on user181's suggestion, (manually) set the color of the objects in question to their actual R-G-B value (not the value from the index color on ACAD/Windows color pallette (eg Magenta = 255,0,255, index color 113 = 82,165,124, etc) by doing this, the colors will look identical to objects with the property of Magenta, etc (and plot identically using acad.ctb) , but monochrome.ctb will plot them in color, while objects assigned as Magenta, etc will plot black.

Re: Not able to plot as desired

abdul.raufJJ89F — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:07:26 GMT

Thanks, it does work for me.

Re: Not able to plot as desired

abdul.raufJJ89F — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:08:55 GMT

Thanks for your valuable advice.