Or if our line colors work for you, you can adopt them as your office standard. We encourage you to take some time to set a similar standard. For example, we've set multiple colors to represent lateral line and mainline pipe. We've also selected multiple screening percentages, as well as multiple colors to represent different objects represented by lines in the drawing. You'll notice in the Land FX Pens drawing that we've selected between 2 and 4 pen colors for each line thickness as it will plot.
We recommend downloading and reviewing the following two documents to see how we set our standard for line colors:
If your office is currently using lineweight-based plot styles, we recommend following our instructions to Convert Lineweight-Based Plot Styles to Color-Based (CTB) Plot Styles.ĭo This First: Set a Color Standard for Plottingīefore you convert your office to CTB files, you'll need to set your office standard for the colors that determine how your drawings will plot. Learn more about CTB files, and why we recommend them, on our About CTB Plot Styles page. Because CTB is the most commonly used plotting method in landscape architecture, we've built much of our software's plotting capability around CTB files. We recommend using CTB plot styles when configuring your plotter settings. Converting your STB files to color-dependent (CTB) files will provide you with the best possible results when plotting your drawings. Many offices have set up their plotting preferences using named (STB) plotting files. Converting Lineweight-Based Styles to CTB Styles.Do This First: Set a Color Standard for Plotting.