I've tried checking the 'monochrome' option in the plot style table but the drawing comes out with the coloured layers. Thank you.
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That sounds strange as monochrome.ctb and .stb are both tables which have been set by Autocad to plot Black and White.
I suggest you run the plot style manager and have a look at both of those, just to see that someone hasn't edited them to plot in colour.
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Are you plotting from Modelspace, or a Layout tab?
If the Model tab, is your visual style something other than 2DWireframe?
As well, TrueColor will ignore plot style settings. CTB (by color) uses an integer color index to look up the plot width; STB (by style) uses a name. TrueColor is an RGB color which can't easily be mapped to a plot setting, and is usually reserved for creating pretty pictures.
Thanks for the reply. I typed in 'Plot Styles' but this notification comes up. I'm new to Autocad 2014 and I;m not sure what to do to print this drawing in black and white. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.
Are you using CTB, or STB
Is "Plot with Plot Styles" checked in the plot dialog page?
Are the colored objects "ByLayer" or do they have object level color overrides applied?
Are the colors 1-255 index colors, or are the True Colors
If possible, use ETRANSMIT to create a zip file containing the drawing and the plot file table, and attach it here.
Thanks,
I'm fairly new to Autocad but I have to find out how to plot this drawing. I'm not sure what the difference between ctb and stb is. I think I'm using in the 'Plot Styles Table' monochrome.ctb. The 'plot with styles' box is checked.
The coloured lines are on different layers and I applied different colours on them. I'm not sure what index colours and True Colours mean.
I also have to mention that I exported this drawing from Google Shetchup as a dwg and I've re-instated the levels to the lines. Maybe there is a problem with that I'm not too sure. I've followed the instructions from this a youtube video.
One thing which I did was to create new layer and assign the line colours on layers. Because Autocad didnt seem to load the existing layers from Sketchup. The only layer which appears is the Layer 0, so I created the other ones again.
I'm gonna try to attach the drawing in here.
If the color name is 3 numbers separated by a comma (Red/Green/Blue), then it's a "True Color" which isn't supported by CTB. You can convert CTB to STB (which does support True Color), however I personally have no experience using Style Based plot files.
You have a few options
1) Change the colors to Index colors and use the existing monochrome or greyscale CTB.
2) Convert/create a monochrome STB plot file that supports the existing True Colors
3) Do not apply color overrides to individual objects, rather group similar objects by their type and place them on an appropriately named layer, Remove the color overrides (change the color of everything to ByLayer") and use the Layer color setting to define the object color. Using this method, all similar objects are displayed the same way. Every object on a layer can be easily changed to a different color by simply changing the layer color, and layers can be displayed differently in different viewports.
This is greaat! Thanks for your help, I really appreciate your detailed advice. I've managed to set it right. Although it;s a minor thing, I feel great that it's now working fine. Thank you very much.
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