Grayscale in the layer manager or properties dialog

[autocad.wishlist1734]

Summary: Ability to specify grayscale in the layer manager or properties dialog.

Description: I wish I could specify grayscale in the layer manager or in the properties. i.e. right now if you want certain entities to be grayed out you must specify by color in the pen styles. I don't want all entities of a given color to be grayed out, just certain ones.

How Used: As a Fire Sprinkler designer I receive CAD backgrounds from many different firms, all of which are using different color schemes. Often these color schemes conflict with my color scheme. I would like to be able to specify gray scale for all entities or layers on the CAD background building when I receive it rather than having to change the color scheme. Changing the color scheme is not always possible as CAD backgrounds are often a work in progress and may be xref’d into my drawings. In these cases specifying grayscale in the layers would be easiest so that even when the xref is updated the layers will remain in grayscale.

Feature Affinity: Layer

Submitted By: Heather Randles on September 20, 2005

[kennet.sjoberg]

Heather, while you bide the time you can use this :
Command: (command "-layer" "C" "9" "*|*" "" )

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[kwilson]

I'm not sure what the "|" code means in your solution, so your method may be the same as mine.
If I understand the problem, and assuming the drawings have colors set as "ByLayer," then I solve it by selecting all the entities that I want to be gray, and set their Color to gray (with the Color Control droplist).
That way, I can easily restore the original colors by resetting those objects (or everything) to "ByLayer."
I'm not sure how this works with Xrefs and refreshing them.

[kennet.sjoberg]

I'm not sure what the "|" code means in your solution. . . .

Ok, I will split it up for you (command "-layer" "C" "9" "*|*" "" )
"*|*" <-- this is a layer name written with wildcards
it means all layernames with a "|" inside is legal layer name,
in this case "XrefNames|LayerName"

and in bokletters: select all xref layers and change their color to number 9

. . . I'm not sure how this works with Xrefs and refreshing them.

but I think you do now. and of course VISRETAIN must be set to 1.

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet