Monochrome Plotting

[Kyle2022]

You will have to excuse my ignorance as I am not as experienced with AutoCAD as I would like to be. I get to do a little electrical drafting now and then. We just upgraded from AutoCAD 2004 to 2005. I like most of the features in 2005, but one plotting element has me a little confused.

In AutoCAD 2004 I was able to choose the "monochrome.ctb" (I believe that to be the name) during the plotting process, and my plots came out black and white (not grayscale). I notice this tab has disappeared in 2005, and I am left to choose all my plot options soley in the destination printer. When I plot an 11 X 17, I am forced into grayscale because I do not have a trueblack option on that printer. My plotter has a trueblack option and therefore I can obtain my desired results.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[IFRs]

monochrome is still a selection in the plot dialog, in the upper right. See it? PlotStyleTable ??

 

[borgunit]

If the little arrow on lower right is pointing to the right, it can expand the dialog for more options.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[LHA]

borgunit has probably identified your problem. I too thought the .ctb selection was gone when I got 2005. I was so confused I called our AutoCAD director. She said, "it's still there", I said "no, it's not". Then she told me what borgunit just said.

It seems like I have to relearn ACAD with each release, but things do get easier to do, so I guess that's good.

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