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Quick slelct Layer Color is greyed out.

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Quick slelct Layer Color is greyed out.

Anonymous
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If I select a line and want to change just the color but not the layer.  The option to pick a differnt color in the Layer Color drop down menu is greyed out and not selectable.

 

 

Also if I select a line and want to change its layer.  It will show that the line change under Layers but on the screen the line doesn't color.  It's stay what ever the original layer color was.

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imadHabash
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Hi,

Would you please show us a screenshot for the issue ?

 

Imad Habash

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Anonymous
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Look in the top right of the screen.  You can see the Layer color is greyed out on not selectable.autocad.png

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pendean
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You have nothing selected in the drawing area of your screenshot...

Do you just need to turn on PICKFIRST variable then adjust PICKADD variable to the default setting listed in HELP?

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

the field which has the content "ByColor" is not the color property, its the "named plot style" property ... and as long as your drawing is setup to use color-dependent style and not Plot-Style dependent this field is greyed out and can't be used.

 

Here are some details about named plot-styles >>>click<<<

 

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Anonymous
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I changed PICKFIRST and PICKADD.  That helped with selecting a new layer to change the color.

 

But it did do anything with just trying to change the color with in a layer.  Below I selected the line but as you can see it is still greyed out.

 

autocad.png

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Consultant

Hi,

 

>> Below I selected the line but as you can see it is still greyed out.

Have you seen may post?

 

- alfred -

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Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2025
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Anonymous
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After I made the post I saw it.  But I'm a-little confussed on what to do.  I went to the Plot style table drop down menu under Plot.  And tried all the selection but that didn't change anything.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
Consultant
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Hi,

 

>> But I'm a-little confussed on what to do.

That's why I added a link to the help where you can read about named plot styles.

If you don't want to use them then you will never get this field alive, does not make sense then.

 

If you only want to change the color of an object (which I never would do, because the layer is the master of the color/linetype/lineweight/transparency and the object should have the settings all to "byLayer") then you can also use the property window ... select an object (or multiple) and inside the property window you can modify the settings.

 

- alfred -

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Anonymous
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Yes it works to match properties and I can use the properties window.  That adds an extra step more than just going up and changing the color.  I'm just sketching up furniture so the accully layers aren't that important.  I've been doing it for so long by just changing the color by selecting Bycolor it's hard to stop.  Sorry just set im my ways LOL.  I just changed jobs and I've been drawing on AutoCAD 2013 for the last 8 years.  Now that I'm on 2021 at my new Job the Bycolor being greyed out is throwing me off.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Consultant

Hi,

 

>> That adds an extra step more than just going up and changing the color

I don't see an extra step as the property window is also just move the cursor to the property window and change the property you'd like to change.

 

>> I'm just sketching up furniture so the accully layers aren't that important

This is one of the sentences which I see as wrong when thinking about structured CAD-files.

If you would not need to give the object a different color then the object could stay on the same layer.

If the object is different (where you assign a different color) the way to assign it to a different layer (and that layer has a different color) would be the much more structured way. And to change the layer or the color of an object is not more or less complex.

 

>> Now that I'm on 2021 at my new Job the Bycolor being greyed out

Well, I'm not sure how often I have to describe ... the field you describe that is greyed out IS NOT THE COLOR property, it's the "named plot style" property.

If you need the toolbars then please watch this very careful:

 

20210308_192446_0001.png

 

Hope it is more clear now ...

If you are missing one of the 4 pull-down selections then you have modified the menu and you need to reset it.

 

- alfred -

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ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2025
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pendean
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It looks like you have the wrong pulldown that old Toolbar you parked up there then? None of us are old-school like that so we assumed you vetted your legacy choices.

Is that the PROPERTIES toolbar? Or did you build your own from other buttons in the commandlist in CUI?



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Anonymous
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How do you reset it.  I must of removed it when I was setting up cad similar to how I had it at my last job.

 

 

The reason I would just change the color and not the layer is.  If I have a layer named drawers in blue.  Now there may be three different banks of drawers in the endview of a drawing.  The facotry doesn't care so there is no need to make a layer for out side drawers, center drawers and so on.  It's just easier to select drawers and just change the color of one drawer if it over laps or is slighty off from another drawer becasue it is at a different depth.

 

Either way thanks for taking time to help.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
Consultant
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Hi,

 

>> How do you reset it. 

Start command _CUI, then in the dialog, upper left ... on the ACAD menu cui ==> right-click ==> reset ACAD.CUIX

 

20210308_194902_0001.png

 

If this fails you can reset the AutoCAD profile as shown >>>here<<<

 

- alfred -

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ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
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Anonymous
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Yes it is the Properties Tool bar.  I removed tools I never use from all the tool bars.

 

I did as suggested about and as you can see it's still greyed out.  For me to reset it the second way mentioned above.  I'll have to get the administrator involved. 

 

autocad.png

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> as you can see it's still greyed out

Not really, have you read my posts before?
The list that is greyed out is the list of "NAMED PLOT STYLES" and IT IS NOT THE COLOR list.

 

There is the color list ... from your screenshot.

 

20210308_201647_0001.png

 

- alfred -

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ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2025
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Anonymous
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Well I fell like an idot.  Thanks so much that works for me.

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pendean
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Hope you read toolbars better than you read replies to your post. Look closely and what you need vs what you don't want below.

 

pendean_0-1615232403477.png

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
Consultant
Consultant

Hi,

 

>> Well I fell like an idot.

Please don't, my English is not the best, so this is a reason for bad understanding me too, sorry if I have chosen the wrong wording!

Most important ... it's working now, glad I was able to help.

 

- alfred -

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Anonymous
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I missed one thing and you go a make a comment like that.  As you can see in my screen shots above my ByLayer only showed line type not color.  Then Alfred to me what to change and I missed that Bylayer now show a color option and a line type option.  But ByColor is stilled greyed out which is what I was consentrating on.

 

So I missed it!!  no need for comments

 

Thanks Alfred

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