topic Re: CTB file/plot style in AutoCAD LT Forum

CTB file/plot style

leticia.campanelli — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:25:06 GMT

Hi there,

We recently changed our CTB file (it had to be renamed) in our office. It is a pain to change the plot style of every single tab of every single file.
Is it possible to change the plot style of more than one tab (paper space) at a time?
Or even better - Is it possible to change it to multiple files at once?

thanks

Re: CTB file/plot style

pendean — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:48:15 GMT

May I ask why it needed to change? OR did you decide to fix a long-term issue.
As you know, AutoCAD's plot settings are per tab per DWG, never system wide.

In LT2023 and older, you'll have to write a macro in a button to execute to replace name for each tab in each instance.
In LT2024, you can write a LISP to help with that if needed, might help in speed it all up in at least one single DWG file's many tabs.

How much time and effort do you wish to spend testing and implementing this?

Re: CTB file/plot style

RobDraw — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:52:57 GMT

Named page setups would help with this tremendously, at least it did for me when I was doing a lot of drawing set-up.

Re: CTB file/plot style

leticia.campanelli — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:06:07 GMT

We are trying to fix a very long issue here.
But it might be easier to change it per tab.
Thanks