new to plot styles

[emodderman]

ok, i have a small stb problem and i'm not familliar enough with them to know whats what... so here it is...

i have a set of drawings for a client. for all of our drawings we use half.ctb and so does the client. the client has now requested that for one of the files they are going to draw up the fixture layout and xref our base plan into THEIR fixture layout and they want OUR plan to come out greyscale and theirs to print in colour.

so i converted our ctb to an stb, and also made a seperare .stb (mhalf) for the client that would print that particular file with our dwg greyscale and their items in colour. BUT when they use mhalf.stb for the rest of our drawing set, it all comes out in colour, which is bad.

how can i make it so they only need 1 .stb to print the whole set with OUR stuff always printing b&w and theirs printing in colour?

[richard.binning]

In your stb define the plot styles for your entities and ensure that they are set to print black or screened or however you want them to print.

Tell your client to create their own plotstyles with the proper color settings.

They use their plotstyles, your stuff uses yours.

P.S. No need to go to STB files for this. You can apply color to CTB plotstyle tables too!

[emodderman]

unfortunately the client isn't going to do anything. they're barely capable of using CAD and we basically have to do everything for them. so i need a solution that requires miminum work on their part... or, basically, we are making their plotstyles for them.

so in my client stb i have defined it so that style_2 has greyscale on, and our drawing set has EVERYTHING in it set to style 2. so when they use that stb to print our files, it actually does work. but getting/keeping everything on style 2 in our drawings is the hard part. all the blocks and then the attributes IN the blocks... they all need to be set manually... so its a pain in the butt...

no need to go to stb files for this... well, with a .ctb file, i would have to take each colour and change how it plots, like i want red to plot black but green to plot green... but then what do i do when they want their green to print and not mine?