Complex Block Color

Hello,

I'm currently drawing a detail and I want the environment to be shown on this detail. The environment is already a bloc but it is composed of a lot of blocs. I would like the environment to be in pale color in my detail but the complexity of the environment don't give me the option to put my lines "byblock" so i could put my block in pale color. I could explose it, but if there is an other way to proceed it would be really usefull because the exploded block won't be updated if I change some informations in my environment.

I'm not sure that i'm really clear so if you have any questions about my problem ask me.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by alien_srp

Hello,

I'm currently drawing a detail and I want the environment to be shown on this detail. The environment is already a bloc but it is composed of a lot of blocs. I would like the environment to be in pale color in my detail but the complexity of the environment don't give me the option to put my lines "byblock" so i could put my block in pale color. I could explose it, but if there is an other way to proceed it would be really usefull because the exploded block won't be updated if I change some informations in my environment.

I'm not sure that i'm really clear so if you have any questions about my problem ask me.

Thanks

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Which software package are you using?

Hello,

I'm using AutoCAD Lt 2012

Sorry for the delay..

No problem. :-)

I'm going to go ahead and move this over to the LT forum.

Thanks.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by alien_srp

Hello,

I'm currently drawing a detail and I want the environment to be shown on this detail. The environment is already a bloc but it is composed of a lot of blocs. I would like the environment to be in pale color in my detail but the complexity of the environment don't give me the option to put my lines "byblock" so i could put my block in pale color. I could explose it, but if there is an other way to proceed it would be really usefull because the exploded block won't be updated if I change some informations in my environment.

I'm not sure that i'm really clear so if you have any questions about my problem ask me.

Thanks

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Can you redefine all the blocks to be ByLayer and then just change the layer colors/line weights?

That's what I would do.

Xref in the environment, rather than use a block insertion. that way it will be easy(er) to update when changes happen, and it will be easier to control the display.