My line weights went to junk after one AutoCAD update

Last month I clicked update without thinking and the next morning my plot styles were all over the place. Everything that was 0.30mm looked like 0.05mm, and my hatching turned into a gray blob. It took me two full days of digging through the CTB file to realize the update had reset my default lineweight scale. Has anyone else had their drawing standards nuked by a silent software patch? What did you do to lock it down?

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finley_harris517d ago

Hell yeah, been there and it still ticks me off just thinking about it. But here's what nobody's talking about, the real trap is the plot style table search path. Autodesk loves to swap that behind your back, so even if your CTB file looks right, the drawing is pulling from some ancient copy in the roaming folder. I had to set up a script that checks the file path every time I open a project, and I pin the CTB to a shared network drive that the IT guys can't touch. Once I did that, updates stopped messing with my setup because the software can't find the file to reset it.