Information on scale lineweights tick box and on CTB or STB files

OBO Oliver Bridge

I would like to see some information on lineweights. I cant find any advice anywhere on the scale lineweights tick box and there seems to be little information on CTB or STB files. Ive been working in microstation for years on a white screen with line weights displayed and it works beautifully. It seems to me that using colours to deliniate lineweights is a hangover from the early days of autocad.