In the image below, the drawing includes a green polyline, a yellow polyline, a cyan circle and a solid object whose color is 255,87,255 - (a truecolor). Plot style tables only apply to the ACI colors 1-255, so if you use a truecolor or color book color, those items will print in the same color as it’s shown on screen without you having to do anything. Where are we going with all of this? Presuming your standard plot style today is set up so that each color prints black, how can you print certain things in color without using a different plot style? The answer is to use a color OTHER THAN colors 1-255, such as a truecolor or color book color. For that matter, you could tell AutoCAD to print color 4 (cyan) as magenta at a width of 0.044″! Talk about confusing, I don’t think mixing the screen colors and the print colors was done very often. So what if you wanted color back then? Presuming you actually had a color printer, you could just as easily tell AutoCAD to print color 4 (cyan) as cyan at a width of 0.028″ wide. For example, you could specify that you wanted color 1 (red) to print black at 0.014″ wide, and color 3 (green) to print black at 0.021″ wide. In the early days of AutoCAD, there were 255 colors available and each one of those could be assigned certain properties that affected how they would print. inexpensive), and this has kept the use of color on the back burner for a long time. For these users, little has changed over the years since their drawings are generally mass reproduced on high speed monochrome equipment (i.e. This will then activate the obscured line settings. Select the viewport and in the properties box under 'Misc' change the shade plot to 'Hidden'. Visual Styles have a lot of problems in 2007, I'm not sure if they're fixed in 2008. (You can select multiple items by clicking while holding down the Shift key.Many CAD users today still routinely produce monochrome drawings of construction documents in their daily production work. Re: Plot style not working in 3D view, output is colour instead of black and white. In the Purge dialog box, expand the Linetypes entry and select all listed linetypes. Type Purge in the Command line and press Enter. The final step is to purge all the now-unused linetypes from your drawing. Now that you have your measurement units set correctly, you'll need to reload your linetypes so they appear correctly.įollow our steps to reload all linetypes in your drawing. For example, if you have your measurement units set to Imperial, type 0 and press Enter. The values are as follows:Įnter a value that matches the measurement units you have set for your Land F/X project and your drawing. Check the value that is currently set in the Command line. If fixing your LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE (as described on the linked article above) does not correct your issue, your next step is to set your measurement units correctly and then load your linetypes to configure them correctly.Ĭheck your measurement units by typing Measurement in the Command line and pressing Enter. Step 2: Set Your Measurement Units Correctly and Reload Your Linetypes If the steps linked above fix your issue, you can continue designing. For more information, including the solution to most cases of dashed lines appearing as solid, see our Linetype Scale (LTSCALE) page.
It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with these important settings on a general level. Your first step should be to troubleshoot your drawing for issues with LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE. If this is the case, you'll need to reload your linetypes as described below. However, you may have your measurement units mistakenly set to Metric when your drawing is meant to be in Imperial units (or vice versa), which can also affect the appearance of dashed lines. In most cases, your issue will be related to linetype scale (LTSCALE) as it relates to Paper Space linetype scale (PSLTSCALE).