The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. CTBs, however, are easier to use when standardizing across your organization as they allow you to be a little bit more uniform in your printing as you roll out your drawings. So, in my opinion, STBs are a tiny bit more flexible than CTBs. The difference with these is that instead of automatically being assigned to a specific color, you could assign this style to any object in the AutoCAD drawing or an entire layer in an AutoCAD drawing. However, you could name them anything you want, and, then, apply them to your elements. For example, you might have styles called Light, Medium, Medium Heavy, and Heavy. You can have as many styles as you want in a plot style table that’s a named style table. By default, this particular STB has two styles: Normal and Style 1. Monochrome.stb is one STB that comes with AutoCAD. You can make as many styles as you want, and then apply them either to a layer or directly to an object.

However, you can save monochrome.ctb under a new file name and then edit aspects of each color, such as line weight.Īn STB is a named style table, and this plot style has a list of style names.

This example is a monochrome which means that every single color is set to print black.

You can see a list of all the colors in AutoCAD from Color 1 to Color 244 by opening the form view. Monochrome.ctb is one CTB that comes with AutoCAD. When you change the settings for that color, it controls how everything in the drawing with that specific color will print. Basically, anything that is the same color in the drawing is going to get the same plot style settings, and, therefore, the same result when it prints. A CTB is a plot style table that has a list of colors.

Importing ctb files in autocad