HELP AutoCAD Non-standard colors don't take grayscale

[alessandro2]

Hi everyone,

I ask for your help. Maybe you can save me 🙂

In my work I receive floor plans from architects or other people on which I have to integrate our technologies and then print our drawing in PDF.

To highlight our integrated devices I created a ctb that puts everything in grayscale and that leaves active only some colors (240 red, 152 blue, etc etc) that I use for my layers.

The problem is that in the drawings I receive many times in the model or in the blocks they use shades of color (for example 255,127,0) and the ctb does not recognize it as a color to replace with the gray scale so I have to manually select the objects or modify the blocks to return them to the standard colors so that they become gray.

Isn't there a simpler method?
Thanks!

[pendean]

Basic AutoCAD 101: TrueColors / RGB colors like 255,127,0 are never influenced by a CTB plot style table. Never ever.

You either need to change those colors to ACI colors 1 through 255, or you need to master and learn to use STB plot style tables instead.

[paullimapa]

Try solutions on this thread

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/routine-to-change-rgb-colors-to-aci-...

[alessandro2]

I agree with you. Unfortunately, making architects understand that this is not the way to work is not so simple and sometimes not even possible... 😞

[pendean]

@Anonymous perhaps you need to up your game, explore more tools and program features like https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-131E3BBB-A28A-40BC-BDC5-A4486C1E2DBE

Own it, don't be a bystander 🙂

[cadffm]

>>" which I have to integrate our technologies "

Are you not using XREF technology?

XREF architects DWG,

Take a look at XREFOVERRIDE

at set Xref layer colors, in your DWG, to ACI

[RobDraw]

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@alessandro2 wrote:
I agree with you. Unfortunately, making architects understand that this is not the way to work is not so simple and sometimes not even possible... 😞

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That shouldn't matter.