topic Re: CHANGE CONNECTOR COLOR in Fabrication CADmep Forum

CHANGE CONNECTOR COLOR

clomedico — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:22:15 GMT

I have my connector colors set up the way i like them (red for s/d black for tdf ) now i have to use the drawing on another paper space layout to draw some controls. Is there a way to grey out the connectors in paper space for this layout?

Re: CHANGE CONNECTOR COLOR

jhoward-HOB — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:36:54 GMT

It is generally a bad practice to set colors in the connectors. I would suggest you set them to 256 (by layer) and handle them solely with the layers using services/service types.

Re: CHANGE CONNECTOR COLOR

clomedico — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:04:52 GMT

Some of them are set that way. others i like to be able to see. and i always get a second grey line that only shows up in paperspace on the connecter as well.

Re: CHANGE CONNECTOR COLOR

jhoward-HOB — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:24:38 GMT

I think it would be a bit hard to tell speculate on exactly what is causing this without having your database. It could still be your Service Types, a database switch or it could be options on your ITMs; less likely to be an option on the ITM if this is happening consistently on ALL parts though.

I would like to illuminate that a single fabrication part is a wrapper of the various sub-parts that make up an Item. Very similar to having nested blocks. Each of these sub-parts are indeed referencing layers and styles which are all based on the CAD Types. I would go to the Database\Takeoff\Services\CAD Types\

Make some changes, go back to your model and run the REBUILDALL command to regenerate the layers. Rinse and Repeat until the problem hopefully goes away.... I think it is the most likely suspect anyway.