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If you’re lucky, someone will provide you with the AutoCAD plot files you need. If that’s the case, you must put the CTB or STB files in the Plot Styles folder for AutoCAD to recognize them. (To find the location of the Plot Styles folder, open the Options dialog box, select the Files tab, and look for the Printer Support File Path→Plot Style Table Search Path setting.)

1. In AutoCAD for MAC there is no commands CONVERTPSTYLES and CONVERTCTB to convert named plot styles to color plot styles (or vice versa) 'on the fly', like in Windows version. But there is workaround - if you want to convert STB-based DWG to CTB-based.
2. The solution below is straight out of AutoCad Help (F1 key) for Windows. It should be the same for Mac. This is a pretty basic legacy function in AutoCad, so I can't imagine them changing it just for the Mac.

A plot style table in AutoCAD is a collection of plot styles assigned to a layout or to the Model tab. There are two types of AutoCAD plot style tables: color-dependent plot style tables and named plot style tables. In AutoCAD for MAC there is no commands CONVERTPSTYLES and CONVERTCTB to convert named plot styles to color plot styles (or vice versa) 'on the fly', like in Windows version. But there is workaround - if you want to convert STB-based DWG to CTB-based. Causes: Custom plot styles (CTB and STB) files are not accessible in AutoCAD until they are either added into the default plot style folder, or a custom folder where they are located is added to AutoCAD's support file search paths.

If you’re unlucky, you need to be smart enough to know how to create your own plot style table files. Here’s how to create plot style table files:

1. Click the Application button to open the Application Menu, click Print, and then choose Manage Plot Styles.

   Use the tiny down arrow at the bottom of the list to scroll farther down, if necessary. The Plot Styles folder opens in a separate Windows Explorer window.

2. Double-click the Add-a-Plot Style Table Wizard program shortcut.

3. Read the opening screen and then click Next.

4. On the Add Plot Style Table – Begin page, choose the Start from Scratch option or one of the other three options if you want to start with settings from another file. Then click Next.

   The remaining steps assume that you chose Start from Scratch. If you chose another option, simply follow the wizard’s prompts.

   If the creator of a drawing provides you with an AutoCAD R14/AutoCAD LT 98 PC2 (version 2) or AutoCAD R12/AutoCAD LT 95 PCP (version 1) file, choose the Use a PCP or PC2 File option. With this option, the wizard imports color-to-plotted-lineweight settings automatically.

5. On the Add Plot Style Table – Pick Plot Style Table page, choose whether you want to create a color-dependent plot style table (CTB file) or a named plot style table (STB file). Then click Next.

   Choose Color-Dependent Plot Style Table to map screen colors to plotted lineweights. Choose Named Plot Style Table to create named plot styles that you can apply to layers or objects.

6. On the Add Plot Style Table – File Name page, type a name for the new CTB or STB file and then click Next.

7. Click the Plot Style Table Editor button on the Add Plot Style Table – Finish page.

   The Plot Style Table Editor dialog box opens to the Form View tab if you’re creating a color-dependent plot style table, or to the Table View tab if you create a named plot style table.

   If you choose a named plot style, the Plot Style Table Editor dialog box opens in Table view, with one plot style named Normal in the first data column, a blank column to its right, and Add Style and Delete Style buttons at the bottom. New named plot styles that you create continue to be added in columns to the right of the previous column.

8. If you created a color-dependent plot style table, assign Lineweight, Screening, or other plot properties to each color that’s used in the drawing. If you created a named plot style table, click the Add Style button and then assign plot properties to each of the named styles you create.

   To determine which colors are used in a drawing, switch to the AutoCAD window and open the Layer Properties Manager palette by clicking the Layer Properties button, located on the Layers panel of the Ribbon’s Home tab.

   To change a setting for all colors or named styles, select them all first by clicking the first color or named style, holding down the Shift key, scrolling to the end of the list, and then clicking the last color or named style. Any subsequent changes you make are applied to all the selected colors or named styles.

9. Click the Save & Close button to close the Plot Style Table Editor dialog box. Then click Finish to complete the steps in the wizard.

   The Plot Styles folder now displays the new CTB or STB file.

10. Equation service 1.0 free download for mac. Close the Plot Styles folder by clicking the X on its title bar.

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Creating a plot style table the first time can be a harrowing experience because you have many options. Just remember that the most likely reason for creating one is to map screen colors to plotted lineweights. Also remember that you may be able to minimize your effort by getting a CTB or STB file from the person who created the drawing you want to plot.

For systematic testing of CTB files, you can download the file named plot_screening_and_fill_patterns.dwg from the AutoCAD 2010 Sample Files group. This drawing shows an array of color swatches for all 255 AutoCAD colors. The layouts (such as Grayscale and Screening 25%) demonstrate how different CTB files attached to the same layout produce radically different results.

Named plot styles hold a lot of promise, but in at least a couple of places (such as dimensions and tables, for example), they don’t work as well as traditional color-based plotting. Dimension properties allow you to assign different colors to dimension lines, extension lines, and text. The purpose is to allow different parts of a dimension object to print with different lineweights.

For example, you can have dimension text print with a medium lineweight, the same as the annotation text, while retaining the fine lineweight of extension and dimension lines. But because named plot styles are based on objects or layers, you don’t have that lineweight control over individual dimension components. The same limitation applies to tables, where you can set text to be one color and grid lines to be another.

If you decide to take advantage of the 16 million colors in the AutoCAD True Color or Color Book modes, you won’t control lineweights with color-dependent plot styles. CTB plot styles affect the lineweights only of objects that use the traditional 255 colors of the AutoCAD Color Index set. If you want True Color or Color Book colors, use object lineweights or named plot styles to control the plotted lineweight.

When it's time to plot your designs, we recommend using color-based (CTB) plotting styles. If you don't yet have a CTB style as your office standard, you might consider using our CTB style.

To learn more about CTB styles, see our About CTB Plot Styles page.

To download our CTB files, right-click the link below, select 'Save As' or 'Save Target' from the menu, and save it somewhere you can easily find it, such as your desktop.

The zip file linked above will downoad to the location you selected.

Double-click the downloaded zip file landfx_ctbs.zip to extract it.

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You'll now have a folder named landfx_ctbs. Open that folder, and locate the following 4 CTB files within it:

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• LFX.CTB (Land F/X Primary CTB file: lineweights at 100%)
• LFX-75percent.ctb (Land F/X 75% CTB File: lineweights at 75% of normal, suitable for an E to D size reduction)
• LFX-50percent.ctb (Land F/X 50% CTB File: lineweights at 50% of normal, suitable for reduction to tablet size)
• LFX-25percent.ctb (Land F/X 25% CTB File: lineweights at 25% of normal, suitable for reduction to paper size)

Copy all four of those files into the folder LandFX/Admin.

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When our software loads, it will locate all CTB files located in the LandFXAdmin folder, and copy those files to the Plot Styles folder specified in your AutoCAD options. You can set this folder in the Files Tab of the AutoCAD Options dialog box. If you have a server installation, this is an extremely convenient method for you to automatically distribute not only Land F/X CTB files, but any of your office's CTB files as well.