No it's seems to be something different, we use viewport class overrides to set up all our sheets and I showed her that and she was adamant it was a file you reference in and it automatically maps all your classes to specific lines weights/colours (providing you are drawing with the correct classes) dependant on the scale of viewport ? It sounds very auto cad but she is sure it was vectorworks!?! Maybe it is an outdated method, I've been using VW since 2012 and have never heard/seen anything like a plot configuration file?
What do you mean by standard naming and where would I find that worksheet, is it something I can generate through Tools > create report? I know there is a plug-in to generate a complete class list too.
We follow the BS CAD/BIM naming convention across all our projects but not sure what you mean by Standard Naming?