Topics in this section

• Overview of Plot Style Settings

  You can open the Plot Style Table Editor by double-clicking a CTB or STB file in the Plotter Manager. The Plot Style Table Editor displays the plot styles contained in the specified plot style table.

• Set Color, Screening, Grayscale, and Dither in Plot Style Tables

  You can use a plot style to assign color, screening, grayscale, and dither properties.

• Assign Pen Numbers and Virtual Pens in Plot Style Tables

  The pen assignments used by the plotter differ depending on whether you use a pen plotter or another kind of printer, such as a laser printer.

• Control Plotted Lineweight and Linetype

  Both lineweight and linetype can be set as an object property or controlled when plotted by using a plot style. Lineweight or linetype settings in the plot style override the object's lineweight or linetype at plot time.

• Assign Plotted Line End and Join Styles

  You can set the line end and join styles for objects that have lineweight assigned, either as an object property or as a plot style override.

• Assign Plotted Fill Styles

  You can assign a variety of fill style options when plotting wide polylines, donuts, objects hatched with a solid fill, and solids.