Plot Style Table vs True Color / Color Books

[ILoveMadoka]

I had one of my users working on an old drawing find that various lines were set to True Color (200, 100, 50).

All the layers only use Autocad Indexed colors.

Our default plot style table prints everything black except one color.

How can I set every possible color option to print black?

 

 

Aren't there like 16 million colors?

 

 

If it was as simple as changing the layer color it's be a piece of cake...

 

Why did someone use that weird color? Only God knows...

 

I know about the BYLAYER command but not all users will remember to do that.

I wanted to set the Plot Style Table to be the door keeper...

 

Please advise..

[BIGAL]

1st is make a copy of the ctb, the pens 1-255 set to black is easy pick 1 hold shift pick 255 set to black. When you plot use your ctb not Acad.ctb. I have like 5 ctb's.

 

The other way maybe is use a layout mview and set all layers to Black.

[ILoveMadoka]

I have 1-255 ready to go <already>

Somebody made a few individual lines a true color... not a layer, just the items themselves..

One was actually "under" another which resulted in a weird print which I how I found the true color issue in the first place...

 

It's the "other" colors (16 million of them!) that I'm concerned with - legacy, many years old drawings by other vendors...

 

I think BYLAYER is going to have to be my go-to.

I wish the CTB would print ALL Colors in black...

 

my problems are here:

[CyberAngel]

IIRC, the CONVERTPSTYLES command will strip all of the color information out of the drawing. It may seem backward, but what you do then is run the same command again. You wind up with your color table system back, but all those assigned colors are gone. Then it's just a matter of using the right table, as Big Al points out.

 

If that doesn't address your issue, or your ten-month-old thread is no longer relevant, I apologize.

[ILoveMadoka]

Thank you..
I'll look into that one..