Colour changing without knowledge!

[petermwilson4326]

I have used a Block of a window detail to fill all my openings of different sizes, each window was deactivated once in place to make slight changes, so they are not Blocks any more. While I have been working on other elements of my drawing, ALL the window details have changed colour, without me asking them to INTENTIONALLY! Now I am having to change each window detail one by one, back to the colour of choice.

What did I do unintendedly to change all the window details?

And is there a quicker way for me to change every window back to the chosen colour?

[David_W_Koch]

@petermwilson4326 

Welcome to the community!

It is hard to say what you might have done that changed the color or how to change it back without knowing how the elements in your exploded blocks are structured.

One possibility:  the elements resulting from the exploded blocks Color property is set to ByLayer, and at some point the color assigned to their layer(s) was changed.  If so, changing the layer color back would fix those elements that remain set to ByLayer.

Attaching a sample DWG in a reply made in the web interface would help us guess what might have happened better.  It need not be your entire drawing - WBLOCKing out several instances of your exploded window details into a separate file may be enough.

[petermwilson4326]

Hi David,

Thank you for your welcome and advice on what might be the issue. I have been trying to work it out myself and found at some point I had changed the 0 layer colour from white to orange which has caused the problem, changing the colour back to white seems to have resolved the issue, thankfully.

I am new to using AutoCAD, and it seems am using the architectural package, which is a bit like me driving an F1 car when I'm only used to riding a bike? A lot more practice, checking out YouTube videos, and asking when required will hopefully bring along at a steady pace.

Thank you again.