Overriding Layers

[ryan.blythe]

I have a drawing that someone went and changed all of the active layers to a grayscale color and a very light lineweight, instead of just changing the xref layers. I need to get my layers back to the way they are supposed to look. Is there a way to create a new drawing and copy them across and override the active layers to take on the same parameters of the new file's layers? I know I can copy them across but can't find a way to get them to override. Thanks

[Anonymous]

USE LAYER MERGE

[bt-arch]

If you have an empty file with all of the layer settings and layers you want, if you copy the contents out of the "bad" file into that new file, the layer settings in the receiving file are always retained.

perhaps you have a similar project with a similar layer structure, you can delete all of the objects and re-save to a new name then bring in the objects from the bad file.

[ryan.blythe]

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Sounds a bad idea to me.
If you ahve changed any settings in the file they will reset when brought
into the new file. Then again I mess with lots of things so it may be just
me.

wrote in message news:5503271@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have a drawing that someone went and changed all of the active layers to a
grayscale color and a very light lineweight, instead of just changing the
xref layers. I need to get my layers back to the way they are supposed to
look. Is there a way to create a new drawing and copy them across and
override the active layers to take on the same parameters of the new file's
layers? I know I can copy them across but can't find a way to get them to
override. Thanks

[Anonymous]

The way it works is that the active drawing controls the layers. If you
import a drawing into the active drawing, the imported drawing takes on the
layer properties of the active drawing - unless the active drawing doesn't
contain layers of the same time, of course. What you can do, if you don't
want to take the time to change color, linetype, and other properties in
every layer, is to rename all the layers. You can try this:

-rename
layer
*
*lizard

Then you can use the LAYER TRANSLATOR to change all the layers to their
correct names and properties.

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_________________________

Bill DeShawn
bdeshawn@nospamsterling.net
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn


wrote in message news:5503271@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have a drawing that someone went and changed all of the active layers to a
grayscale color and a very light lineweight, instead of just changing the
xref layers. I need to get my layers back to the way they are supposed to
look. Is there a way to create a new drawing and copy them across and
override the active layers to take on the same parameters of the new file's
layers? I know I can copy them across but can't find a way to get them to
override. Thanks

[Anonymous]

If you have a good drawing with the layers you want, then save as a dws file. Then use the cad standards checker to reset all the layers in the bad drawings to the proper settings.

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Matt Jackson
myCADD Consulting
http://www.myCADD.com

[bt-arch]

How do you do that? I have never been able to figure out how to get the ACAD standards to reset the layers, all I can ever get is a summary report of the offending layers with no option to fix.