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Color dependent plot style (CTB)

Color dependent plot style (CTB) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Color dependent plot style (CTB)

- [Voiceover] We're now in a new section in our Plotting and Publishing in AutoCAD course, and what we're going to be looking at now is plotting styles and how we set them up. So we've got a new drawing available to you, it's 07_PlotStyles.dwg, and I'm in the Model tab right now. What we need to look at now are the different ways of plotting, the plotting styles. Now one way of plotting in AutoCAD, which is the default way when you first install AutoCAD, is using color table plot styles. So let's have a look at how they work. First things first, where do I find my color tables, where are they? Well let's go to the Output tab on the ribbon, because at the end of the day, we are obviously plotting and publishing. And what we want to do is make sure that we're in one of our layout tabs. So I'm going to jump down here, bottom left, and click on GA, so there's our GA tab. And you can see our title block, our viewport, our nice scaled view of the overall building with all the grids and the…

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