Advice needed

[jorgegarciaXXVEA]

Hello, my name is Jorge and Im currently working as a drafter for a civil engineering company.

My problem is that we need to make some plans showing the different phases of the project with different colors. To do that we are duplicating the dwgs that contain the references shown in the plans.

If anyone knows a method to show the same xref in different colors that does not require to duplicate the dwg containing said xref, please let me know, it would help me and my coworkers a lot. 

Best regards.

[-didier-]

Bonjour @jorgegarciaXXVEA 

To answer you without going beyond your subject, it would be good to upload some drawings on the site.

With several examples of phases to understand the differences to highlight.

Amicalement

[imadHabash]

Hi,

@jorgegarciaXXVEA 

The AutoCAD Layer States Manager (LAYERSTATE command) saves, restores, and manages configurations of layer properties—such as on/off, color, and linetype—allowing you to quickly switch between different drawing views. Access it by clicking the Layer States Manager icon (third icon from left) within the Layer Properties Manager.>>Click<<

[jorgegarciaXXVEA]

Thanks Didier. I can not upload the drawings because of the data protection, so I will try to explain it with images.

As you can see in the first image (Img_A) we have a drawing of a railway line. This drawing is referenced in various drawings across the project and we can not edit it.

What we need is to get the line to be displayed in like in the second image (Img_B) without duplicating the reference. I have tried doing it by inserting the reference  twice in the same drawing, but if I edit the color of the layers both references get edited. If there was a method to edit the reference separately it would be very useful. 

Regards and sorry for my english beforehand.

[imadHabash · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the details...

You can also from layout space make more than viewport and start change layer colors for the same model plan and without effecting the origin one. click inside VP then type Layer command to get the dialog. Now, you can make your own VP changes from all tabs start with VP. (VP Freeze / VP Color / VP Linetype / VP Lineweight / VP Transparency / VP Plot Style). >> Click <<

[jorgegarciaXXVEA]

I will try doing what you said. Thank you!

[paullimapa]

Any reason for not renaming the xref name and then reference the dwg again?

This way you'll have two sets of layers:

1) layers prefixed with renamed xref

2) layers prefixed with original xref name

Now you can change the colors of each separately.