making drawing to black and white only.

[anas_muzamil]

The attached floor plan originally used various colors. I have changed everything to white by adjusting the layer colors, except for a few remaining elements. Please advise on how to change the remaining colors to white lines only with out changing individually.

Thank you.

[pendean]

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@anas_muzamil wrote:

The attached floor plan originally used various colors...

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Nothing is attached: can you try again (please ensure it is a DWG file, not a picture).

TIA

[anas_muzamil]

Sorry about that. 

[Ed__Jobe]

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@anas_muzamil wrote:

I have changed everything to white by adjusting the layer colors, except for a few remaining elements.

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I have to question WHY you are doing this. If its for plotting, then it's totally unnecessary. You get a black plot by using plot styles, using one of the standard CTB or STB files that come with AutoCAD. They have "mono" in their name.

[anas_muzamil]

Hi Ed, 

Actually, there is going to colored area when plotting, some of the office and meeting rooms. I haven't gotten to that. Except that everything has to be black and white. 

Thank you. 

Thanks. 

[TheCADnoob · Accepted solution]

some of the items are blocks. In order to change the color of those you have to go into block editor and change the elements there. The good new is that once its changed there it will change any where that block is used. Note: you can easily change colors of items using the properties pallet. 

There are some elements that appear to have been blocks that have been exploded. You can use QSELECT to select all the items by that color. Then you can change those to white. 

[pendean]

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@anas_muzamil wrote:

... with out changing individually.

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Thanks for the DWG file. What you are asking for above is never an option in AutoCAD: I'm not sure how that would even work exactly (need everything white but can't change anything to white?).

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@anas_muzamil wrote:

.... Except that everything has to be black and white. ...

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See attached, is this what you need? You had many blocks with manual overrides that needed to be fixed, aka changed to BYBLOCK instead of RED or CYAN for example. There are lots of free LISP routines that can fix them.

[anas_muzamil]

Thanks so much. Exactly, what I wanted. 

[anas_muzamil · Accepted solution]

Great. Now, I understand the issue. Very helpful.

Hvae a great day.