Default Layer Colors for P&ID

[eadkins73]

Does anyone know how to change the default layer colors for the P&ID's.  I changed the Layer color on my drawing for the TEXT layer from cyan to (0.75,145).  But every time I change something in the project setup when I exit, it reverts back to Cyan.  How do I get the change to stay?

[Anonymous]

Are you generating new drawings (P&IDs) from a dwg template??? Open the dwt file and change color(s) in template file used to generate P&IDs. That is were your defaults are generated from. Just a thought

[eadkins73]

I just double checked the .dwt and the colors are set the way I want them.  Could they maybe pulling them from another dwt somewhere?

[TomislavGolubovic · Accepted solution]

Are you making the color changes in the Project Properties? Each of the classes under the P&ID Classes has a "Edit Symbol" dialog box which does the colors and layers for each item.

[Peter_Jansoone · Accepted solution]

If you want layers to be available when a drawing is created, you need to add them to the template.

If you neeed layers for the symbols, just create them when you're editing blocks in Project Setup. They will be added to projSymbolStyle.dwg and will be available in the pull down in the 'edit symbol' dialog. These layers will only be created in the p&id when a symbol that is using it is inserted.

The first creation of the layer will define its properties (in case the same name exists in template and symbol definition drawing.)

[eadkins73 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Tomislav and Peter.  both of those were helpful.  I didn't want to change the Text Layer color on every symbol though.  But when I changed the color of the Text layer in the projSymbolStyles.dwg this changed all of the symbols text for me the way I wanted.

So basically when you set a symbol's layer to a certain thing, like "Equipment", and you pick color by layer the projSymbolsStyle.dwg is what defines what this color by layer is.