topic Re: Custom symbol not changing colour when I change the layer in AutoCAD Electrical Forum

topic Re: Custom symbol not changing colour when I change the layer in AutoCAD Electrical Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/custom-symbol-not-changing-colour-when-i-change-the-layer/m-p/5469293#M44244 Hi.   I had a quick look.   When AcadE inserts a symbol, it moves the different attributes of the symbol to some specific layers (the TAG1/2 attributes are moved to the TAGS layer). So, if you set these attributes to color ByLayer they WILL inherit the color of these layers. But, what you can do, is as I've done in the attached file. In the block definition, o've set all attributes/line etc. to be color ByBlock. Now, the attributes and lines will have the same color as the inserted block, and not the color of the layer that the different parts of the symbol resides on.   Seems to work. So, change the block definition to make everything to be color ByBlock, then run the attsync command to apply this "fix" to all blocks that are already inserted.     Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:54:16 GMT rhesusminus 2015-01-14T15:54:16Z