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Layer Color Keeps Reverting

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JLNims
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Layer Color Keeps Reverting

Interesting problem: In AutoCAD Mechanical 2014, I created a new layer. I set the color for magenta. Then as I was working, I noticed the drawing (which I did not create) had too much magenta on many layers, so I changed the color of the new layer I just created to color 23 (brownish). However, as I'm working on the drawing, the color will revert to magenta all by itself! This has happened several times; and I can't see what causes it. There's no pattern in my work that seems to trigger the reversion. Smiley Surprised

Anyone?

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pendean
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Is this a layer name totally unique to you, like JLNims1234, or is this a layer name that MECH 2014 can create and use itself through other functions and processes?
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JLNims
in reply to: pendean

Thank you for the response.  The layer name is unique to the drawing.  The name is actually "Tire_Platform".

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JLNims
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Bump!  No solution as of yet.

Anyone?

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pendean
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There is nothing in the OOTB program that change a user created layer's color or any other property.
So either someone is doing that, or you have an add-on or predefined tool doing it for you. Sadly only you can discover that.

A test: put a small X in the layer name, at the front, and see if the problem suddenly stops or something in your program complains (or worse, it creates the original name as a new layer).
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JLNims
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"A test: put a small X in the layer name, at the front, and see if the problem suddenly stops or something in your program complains"

 

I did place a small x in the layer name; and the problem seems to have gone away.  Not sure if this is an actual solution, because it was just a non-automated layer in the first place.  But it seems to be working, so I'll take it!  Smiley Happy

 

Thanks!

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