layers and greyscale

[sphipps]

iv been given a dwg with multiple layers on all in different colors. i would like to grey scale them and place our own modifications on a differnet layer with color how do i do this please. 

[rkmcswain]

I presume you are talking about printed output and not necessarily what it looks like on screen.

If so, you could use a monochrome plot style, and then add your own modifications using truecolors (as opposed to the ACI colors 1-255). That is unless the drawing already contains layers/entities with assigned truecolors, then you would have to assign an ACI color to them also.

You could also start a new empty drawing, xref in the one you've received, set all of the xref layer colors to various shades of grey, then do your drawing in the empty base on top of the xref.

[sphipps]

Hi
I've tried to do your second suggestion because i don't understand the first. When I changed all the xref colours some of the colours are still there.

[rkmcswain]

That could be because some entities in the xref drawing have a color assigned to them instead of being set to "bylayer".

[sphipps]

Unfortunately they are all in different blocks and it would take forever to go through each one. Is there a way to do all of it at once?

[rkmcswain]

You could run the SETBYLAYER command on everything in the xref drawing and be sure to answer "Y" to the "Include Blocks" prompt.

[sphipps]

Thanks I think I've got it.