Grey Screen Green Lines

[Michael.Casey4XXZR]

I was working and suddenly the drawing went grey except the lines all turned green.  I couldn't get out of it, I had to start a new drawing.  Has anybody had this happen to them?

[pendean]

Sorry, we have no idea what you mean, see or what triggered it: next time it happens grab a screenshot of your entire program window so we can see what you see.

[TheCADnoob]

you may have been able to recover some of the drawing:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-r... 

It would be interesting to see if the color changes were actual color changes or due to the a crash. 

[imadHabash]

Hi,

I suggest to check hardware acceleration from GRAPHICSCONFIG command . 

[Michael.Casey4XXZR]

Okay, it happened again.  Here is a screen shot.

[pendean]

What were you just doing when it happened? CTRL+F2 and find out.

LAYER command, layer colors change to those?

AND... in PAGESTUP command, is your DISPLAY PLOT STYLES box toggled on?

Any part of that image an XREF?

[Michael.Casey4XXZR]

Pendean,
There is nothing in command history and Ctrl-Z won't undo it. There is only layer 0 and the layer color Is automatic. Object properties are by layer. No plot styles are defined and the DISPLAY PLOT STYLES box is unchecked.

[TheCADnoob]

This looks a lot like the dwg compare feature... with some setting toggled off.

Can you type commands? if so type COMPARECLOSE and see if it changes anything. 

[pendean]

@Michael.Casey4XXZR So you were just sitting there doing nothing but staring at a just-opened file and poof! it does that?

[Michael.Casey4XXZR]

TheCADnoob,
I think you might be on the right track, I dd the COMPARE command and the result was similar. Not quite the same.
Pendean,
I was editing the drawing when I must have hit some key accidently and the screen shifted. Then I couldn't get back out, I have to close the drawing and go back to the last saved version. If I close and reopen the file it reopens in that same mode.

[pendean]

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@Michael.Casey4XXZR wrote:
If I close and reopen the file it reopens in that same mode.

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Unlike this last time, next time it does it, SAVEAS to create a new DWG file then share that new DWG file here for all of us to see for ourselves.

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@Michael.Casey4XXZR wrote:
I have to close the drawing and go back to the last saved version. 

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Why? does UNDO not just revert back right there before that action, so you only lose that action but nothing else? 

[TheCADnoob]

It would be odd for it to start by its self though. Are you using any plugin or custom lisps/macros/scripts/plugins? any chance did you edit the command aliases or perhaps have a customized keyboard or mouse that might trigger it?