Our plot style file also carries a number of additional plot styles that support all the various out-of-the-box settings from over the years, but users need not worry about those - they are there just in case someone makes use of out-of-the-box content that was set up for one of those old plot styles. For contract documents, we have two plot styles with which users need to interact - Black and Screened Black. No more fighting between disciplines over what color 57 should be (or maintaining separate plot style files for each discipline). We also moved lineweights to the drawing, making plot style management ever-so-much-more easy.
My 2 cents on plot styles in AutoCAD Architecture (feel free to ignore if it does not match your own and your firm's experience): we moved to named plot styles when ACA (or, as it was called way back then, Architectural Desktop) first fully supported them, and have never looked back. You do not get to set lineweight in the Revit Export Setup so you will have to double check that against what you get in AutoCAD Architecture. I suspect you are going to have to create your own Revit Export Setup (saved in your template(s)) and tweak the settings to get both exactly the same.
They vary on Windows (Revit 151, ACA 51), but do both use layer A-Glaz. Walls (113), Doors (31) and Stairs (31) seem to coordinate (although for Stairs, Revit uses S-Stairs as the layer vs. A quick check of just a few major items shows that there does seem to be some correlation between the colors assigned to the Revit Export Setup with the AIA layer standard loaded and the colors in AutoCAD Architecture (looking at the 2018 versions of both). It has been years since I have used CTB plotting, but I believe either of those, when used with out-of-the-box content, will achieve the same result as using an STB-based template with the Aec Standard.stb plot style file.Īs for Revit exports to DWG, you would have to compare the layers set up in the AutoCAD Architecture Layer Key Style against your Export Setup in Revit. AIA LWT by Object.ctb does a mix of black/screened black and object color plotting (20-29, 40-49, 60-69, 80-89, 101-109, 120-129, 140-149, 160-169, 180-189, 200-209, 220-229, 240-249 plot with object color if memory serves, the colors of out-of-the-box object in ACA do not typically use those colors for plotting layers), but defers to the drawing settings for lineweight. Where do you want to set your lineweights - in the drawing or in the plot style file?ĪIA Standard.ctb does monochrome printing (black and screened black) and sets the lineweights in the plot style file.
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