Changing a block colour in the viewport ONLY

[brosnan_pereraJUJBN]

Hello,

I am using VP Colour for a particular reason; to grey out existing technology and only show the NEW technology to be installed in colour. However a lot of the layouts were previously created and have their own blocks and dynamic blocks that retain their colour.

When I grey out all the colours in the viewport I cannot seem to grey out the blocks without going back into the model space and actually greying out the blocks by exploding them and changing the colour. 

How do I change the colour of the blocks to match the grey of everything else using only the viewport settings so that the model space is unchanged? 

[pendean]

Your block has an override inside it that need to be changed first: try to fix it with SETBYLAYER command (block sub-option) or BEDIT command.

VP column settings in LAYER command never address overrides in objects.

[brosnan_pereraJUJBN]

This changes the colour of the block on the model space. Does that mean there is no way to change it just for the viewport?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

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@brosnan_pereraJUJBN wrote:

This changes the colour of the block on the model space. Does that mean there is no way to change it just for the viewport?

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VIEWPORT overrides (including color) apply to layers only, not objects, not anything else sadly: you can change the color of the layer your blocks are in to see them differently. Having your needed blocks on a custom aka their-own-layer would be a workaround to use as well.