Creating a Color Plot Style Table

Creating a Color Plot Style Table
You can have several plot style table files on hand to quickly apply plot styles to any given plot
or Layout tab. You can set up each plot style table to create a different look for your drawing.
These files are stored in the
Plot Styles
folder of the
C:\Documents and Settings\
Username
\
Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2008\R17.1\enu\
folder. Follow these steps to create a
new plot style table. You’ll use an existing file that was created in Release 14 an example to demonstrate
the plot style features:
TIP
If you change your mind about a selection you make while using a wizard, you can move forward
or backward by clicking the Next and Back buttons.
1.
Open the sample file called
Plan-color.dwg
; then, click the Layout1 tab.
2.
Right-click the Layout tab, and select Page Setup Manager. In the Page Setup Manager
dialog box, click Modify.
3.
The Page Setup dialog box is similar to the Plot dialog box. The main difference is that the
Page Setup dialog box doesn’t have the Apply To Layout button at the bottom.


4.
In the Plot Style Table (Pen Assignments) group at upper right, open the drop-down list and
select New to start the Add Color-Dependent Plot Style Table Wizard.



5.
Click the Start From Scratch radio button, and then click Next. The next screen of the wizard
asks for a filename.
6.
Enter
Mystyle
for the filename, and click Next. The next screen of the wizard lets you edit
your plot style and assign the plot style to your current, new, or old drawings. You’ll learn
about editing plot styles a bit later.
7.
Click Finish to return to the Page Setup dialog box.
With the Add Color-Dependent Plot Style Table Wizard, you can create a new plot style table
from scratch, or you can create one based on an AutoCAD R14 CFG, PCP, or PC2 file. You can also
access the Add Color-Dependent Plot Style Table Wizard by choosing File 
Plot Style Manager
and then double-clicking the Add-A-Plot Style Table Wizard icon.
The steps shown here are the same whether your drawing is set up for color plot styles or named
plot styles.