Understanding layer colours

deljones
deljones
in 2D Drafting

This will be really easy for a BricsCAD user… I'm looking to move over from a competitor, so I am trialling BricsCAD. See the attached.

I have a stage lighting symbol which was imported from another drawing. I want the symbol to be RED. It is in its own layer, DJLD_Perseo. I changed it in the layer settings, the properties show red, and the pop-out in the symbol is red, but on the drawing, it stays white. What have I done wrong or missed if I want to make this symbol, and all symbols on that layer red.

Many thanks

Dj

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Comments

  • David Waight
    David Waight

    If you double-click on the block, it will open the block editor.

    Select the block you want to change in the list (it should default to the one you want).

    Bricscad will show you the block you clicked and give you the chance to edit pretty much anything to do with that block.

    In your case, you want to change the color, so you would look in the Properties Palette to where it shows the color.

    I don't know how your block was set up, but it may show Bylayer in the Color section.

    If you click on this to get the colour editor, you can choose your new color.

    If you are using the Ribbon you will see the Ribbon is showing the Block Editor section with 4 icons.

    Click on Save Block, and you will be put back to your complete drawing, and hopefully all instances of the same block will now be the same color.

    If you look in the Bricscad help and check out the difference between Bylayer and Byblock it should give you a better understanding of what is going on.

    Hope that helps.

  • Virgil
    Virgil

    Hello.

    Aside from the details above, something useful could be, when editing the block, to put all entities on layer 0.
    In this case, when the color of those entities is set to ByLayer or ByBlock, the entities on layer 0 will inherit the color of the block, regardless of the color assigned to layer 0.

  • ALANH
    ALANH

    Just me Bedit block, select all with say mouse. I have the layers toolbar displayed, select layer 0 all done, save block.

    If you have lots of blocks then can use a lisp or script within Bedit for each block, Select All then use Chprop LA.