XREF color

[per_anders]

Hello

Can you make it so the x-ref drawing will print out in index color 8 (grey)? So that you get the same printing-thickness on all walls, symbols, furnitures etc. And that my plumbing drawing will look as I want to in my color settings. 

Mvh

Per-Anders

[-FDC- · Accepted solution]

You can do this by changing the viewport color (or VP lineweight) for your xref layers.

Like this the xref stays unchanged in modelspace and wil print in whatever you want in paperspace.

Go to paperspace, activate your viewport and change the VP color in your layer settings to color 8.

[ara_neresesian]

Hi
As I understand you want to print all objects in the xref gray and the rest layer as you want per color.
If i am right you can go to layer select the color of your xref attach layers to no 8
( but sll objects in xref must be set color=by layer)
Then you can chenge all xref layer color in your darawung to each color you want
Without changing the xref source file
Good luck

[imadHabash]

Hi,

>> Can you make it so the x-ref drawing will print out in index color 8 (grey)? <<

Yes you can ... You can now apply overrides for color, linetype, lineweight, and plot style to layers in individual layout viewports. >> Click <<  and when you want to delete and remove all the viewport overrides from all the layers in the current viewport just use VPLAYER command with hidden keyword option reMoveoverrides . 

Command:  VPLAYER
Enter an option  [?/Color/Ltype/LWeight/Freeze/Thaw/Reset/Newfrz/Vpvisdflt]: M
Enter an option [Color/Ltype/LWeight/PStyle/All]: A
Enter layer name(s) to receive VP property override or <specify layers by object selection>:  *
Specify viewports(s)  [All/Select/Current]  <Current>:  C
Enter an option  [?/Color/Ltype/LWeight/Freeze/Thaw/Reset/Newfrz/Vpvisdflt]: 

all the best ... 

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> but sll objects in xref must be set color=by layer

Just want to add ... if not all objects within the XRef are set to color = byLayer you can use sysvar XREFOVERRIDE (>>>details<<<) to get them displayed well (in grey in this case)

- alfred -

[per_anders]

Hi! I do not have VP Color in my menu?

[-FDC-]

What version of Autocad are you using ?

[per_anders]

Hey!
These two options will only appear on the menu bar if I am writing VPLAYER. Do I write M and I receive an error message?

[per_anders]

2018

[-FDC- · Accepted solution]

VPcolor (viewport color) is only available when you are in paperspace!

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

@per_anders

Plotting a certain color depends primarily on whether your plot style is CTB based or STB based. So if you are using STB plotstyles, the issue may also be simplified to setting the plot style of the xref layers to 50 percent. This will not affect the way that layers appear on screen though, except within paper space viewports and then only if the pagesetup display as plot is checked.

Next, since some objects within the xref may be on layer 0, you should also create a layer for the external reference itself and set that layer's color to 8 or plotstyle to 50 percent (if STB).

Next, if you want layer control in the xref target vs xref source, make sure visretain is set to 1.

As @Alfred.NESWADBA said, you will probably need to set XREFOVERRIDE to 1 to ensure that objects not set to bylayer behave as if they were bylayer. My preference is to edit the xref drawings and ensure all main objects are bylayer and all nested objects are either bylayer or byblock and that all mtext color overrides, multileader style color overrides,and dimstyle color overrides have been stripped out.  Suitable source changes are only practically applied though programmatically.

For CTB plotting and color display on-screen,

1. If you want to see and plot this behavior in model space, you need to change the colors of the xref drawing layers itself.  Viewport overrides only exist within a viewport in paper space and cannot be set while in the model tab.
2. If you work and/or plot in paper space and if you want to vary the way you plot the xref on a per viewport basis, then you should set the vpoverrides either using layer or vplayer while that viewport is active. For viewport overrides to be available, you must be in a layout tab.

[per_anders]

Thanks for the tip it was really good.

Mvh

Per-Anders

[levi2FNWQ]

This helped me. Thanks!

[-FDC-]

You're welcome !