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dmfrazier
en respuesta a: Anonymous

"...changing my workspace didn't change the background, it only changed the colour of my white layers to appear black."

 

I think what you are describing here may be a change in the visual style that (may have) accompanied the change in workspace (or profile). (I don't know what is the relationship between workspace and visual style.)

 

"It also caused my layer properties toolbox to appear above my main top ribbon, which is not where I usually keep it."

 

Locations (and other properties) of toolbars, palettes, etc. (interface elements) are definitely stored in workspaces, so this sort of thing should not be unexpected when switching workspaces.

 

"I did confirm that these layers that were appearing black were assigned to colour number 7 or number 255 (even the small box showing colour in the layer properties tab was appearing black even though when I checked it was assigned to white."

 

Color #7 will always appear white on a black background and black on a white background (which is why it's often referred to as "white/black").

Color 255 (index color, or RGB color 255,255,255) is actually an extremely light shade of gray (grey) and will effectively disappear if the background is set to white/black. AutoCAD will not let you change the color of certain interface elements that are "traditionally" white/black (color 7) (crosshairs, for example) to 255. It will automagically change it to color 7 (because it knows better what's good for you than you do). This is not true for object colors, however.

 

"...if you have theories about why this happened..."

 

One thing to investigate is whether or not your method of launching AutoCAD causes any changes to your profile (or other settings). This can be done by specifying a profile to load in the shortcut you use (or running a script), or by automation that runs during program startup or drawing open.