importing ctb

Anonymous · ‎11-20-2017

Please can someone help me.

Im setting up new drawing templates for our new interior design business. I have both stb and ctb files in my plotter folder but I can't open/utilise any of the ctb files.....therefore when I try to plot to pdf and choose grayscale, it plots in colour

I have never done this before so need simple step by step advice

I understand that I need to convert the drawing to ctb but previous advice using COVERTPSTYLES is not working

Im on 2017 on MAC

maxim_k · ‎11-20-2017

Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

Hi Claire,

Yes, CONVERTPSTYLES is not available on Mac, but you can try one of the following :
- create new CTB based drawing, open your existing STB based drawing, select everything in it, copy to clipboard, then paste to the new drawing you created in the first step, save new drawing.
Or
- create new CTB based drawing, then use INSERT command to insert the whole old STB based drawing - use Browse button to navigate to the old drawing). Don't forget to check mark "Explode Block" option before clicking on Insert button.

Maxim

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