I thought monochrome.stb was supposed to print in black. Occasionally in AutoCad, a block inserted in my drawing would be color, alone in the drawing.

In Draftsight, it's a nightmare to get things to print in black and white. Draftsight even overrides the printer settings.

??Problem: in print settings, monochrome.stb still causes lines in the drawing to plot in color. Searching for a solution, though I have been going about this in a somewhat disorganized way, I here are some solutions:

Solution 1:

using NAMED PRINT STYLES, select all objects, switch print style to 'monochrome.stb>style1' then all the lines plot in black EXCEPT dimension lines and extension lines. These must be manually edited to 'white'.

Solution 2:

using NAMED PRINT STYLES, select all objects, change color>white

Solution 3:

using COLOR-DEPENDANT PRINT STYLES, ?select all objects, change color>white

Solution 4: (best I think)

copy monochrome.stb from AUTOCAD and paste over monochrome.stb in DRAFTSIGHT. That worked for some reason, now monochrome.stb plots in black.

So if anyone can help me understand a better way to do this, I would appreciate it. The Draftsight HELP is brief on the subject.