Can we talk about that time my line weight went completely haywire on a set of shop drawings

I was working on a full plumbing riser diagram for a 4 story commercial building over in Oakwood last Tuesday and somehow my plot style got corrupted. Every single pipe came out as a solid black blob instead of the dashed 0.35mm line it was supposed to be. Spent 45 minutes digging through the layer manager before I found out my CTB file had swapped a random layer to color 255. Has anyone else had a random plot style glitch like that make you want to throw your keyboard?

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nancythomas6d agoMost Upvoted

oh man, I've been there. that exact thing with the CTB file swapping to color 255 is a classic. what worked for me was keeping a backup copy of my CTB file with a different name, like "good_setup.ctb", so when the main one gets corrupted I just swap it out and reload. also check your plot style table folder sometimes autocad dumps random duplicates in there that mess everything up. hope you got it sorted without too many more gray hairs.

hayden_nelson856d ago

Heard a buddy had the same CTB meltdown @nancythomas, and he ended up printing everything in invisible ink by mistake.

rodriguez.felix6d ago

Wait, invisible ink? Like the stuff with lemon juice and heat and all that? That's actually hilarious though, I can just picture him holding pages over a lamp trying to read his plot settings. But seriously, how does a CTB file even get messed up that badly where it thinks it's supposed to print ghost lines? I'd be losing my mind if my drawing came out blank like that.