topic Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color in AutoCAD Forum

Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 03:22:14 GMT

Hello All

I'm using AutoCAD 2013 and no matter what I do my Line color always comes up green even

when the current layer color is red. I have to keep going back to proprieties and change line color

to red. Any advice would be helpful.

Dave

Northern California

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

jayhar — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:13:40 GMT

Find the attachments........

May be your ACAD selection Green is Default.
Check pen assignment, this option only you can see in layout.

please upload your cad file...............

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Vinayv4v — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:57:18 GMT

Hi, Enter command COLOR and make sure it is set to BY LAYER format.

Check what is the value of system variable SETBYLAYERMODE. Default value is <255>.

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

ian.mag — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:27:09 GMT

Hey,
1. Select the line with this property.
2. Right click and select similar.
3. If the properties tool isn't already opened, open it by typing PROPS.
4. Change the layer to be By Layer.

This should solve your issue.
In the home tab, in the properties panel, change the color to be By Layer as well

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

pendean — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:56:42 GMT

AutoCAD2013 is not new by any means: -versions old now.
So what changed recently with your setup?
Or is the problem just in this one DWG file?

Tell us more.

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:41:18 GMT

Hi Thanks for getting back so quickly.

I have the problem fixed.

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

scot-65 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:29:15 GMT

Lots of good replies here except for those that use the keyboard...

Command: CECOLOR
Enter new value for CECOLOR <"BYLAYER">:

The same goes for CELTSCALE, CELTYPE, CELWEIGHT as well as hatches (HPCOLOR)...

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Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 07:40:31 GMT

Thx this works!

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:21:33 GMT

Oh my god. . .!! Thank you sir! You are awesome for posting.

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:53:12 GMT

CECOLOR WAS THE CORRECT ANSWER AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM FOR ME. THANKS. MATT

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Cad4fish — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:04:21 GMT

I have tried both COLOR and CECOLOR and neither had the color of this array to match the layer. Other arrays in other locations in the same drawing had the correct color.

Re: Line Color does not reflect layer color

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:04:31 GMT

None of the above solutions worked for me. Then I figured out all of the ones I had issues with were Block References. Solution there is to edit each block with the block editor and make sure all the parts of the block are layer "0", then each instance of the block will take on the ByLayer color if assigned.