RickR 59 Posted April 25, 2008 Similar to my fonts posting, I am trying to exactly match and ACAD drawing. My client sent a .ctb file that sets line weights and so forth. The problem is she doesn't even know what all it does. Can someone take a look at it? I've attached it with an extra .txt extension. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post
0 jan15 2 Posted April 25, 2008 CTB's are binary files, can't be read as text. Autocad includes a CTB editor that can open them and view the color-to-lineweight settings and the many other settings they contain for each of the 256 entity colors. Autodesk makes a free tool that puts ONLY the color-lineweight info in an Excel file. I think it only works if you have Autocad installed. Maybe your colleague will be willing to do that for you. Otherwise, your best bet might be to download a free demo of one of the Intellicads (BricsCad, Cadian, Cadopia, ProgeCad, and others) and install it and open the CTB with that. Quote Share this post Link to post
0 Ray Libby 1 Posted April 25, 2008 From the online manual: If a .ctb file is detected, Map Colors to Line Weights is selected automatically, and VectorWorks reads the file to determine how colors should map to line weights. A dialog box displays to allow manual mapping (values are pre-set by the mapping file; duplicate mappings are indicated by italics). So if the .ctb file is in the folder with the .dwg to be imported it should set the lineweights. Quote Share this post Link to post
0 RickR 59 Posted April 26, 2008 Thanks both! Somewhere in there I can get it done. Quote Share this post Link to post
Similar to my fonts posting, I am trying to exactly match and ACAD drawing.
My client sent a .ctb file that sets line weights and so forth. The problem is she doesn't even know what all it does.
Can someone take a look at it? I've attached it with an extra .txt extension.
Thanks!
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