LAYER AND MODEL SPACE COLORS NOT SHOWING PROPERLY

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with one drawing out of a dozen. I have all my colors set to "by layer" however all my text/linework are MOSTLY grey scaled out. I have some entities on my "ADD" LAYER which will show the color properly - in this case red. But, some lines will be greyed out and I'll have to double click them to show red, but once I de-select, they'll go back to grey.



It's like I have hit some setting/variable and I don't know how I did it because the other 10 drawings are fine. I've done recover, purge, audit, overkill. I've restarted the pc.

Thx for any help

Post the dwg so we can look at it.

Yes, posting a sample drawing would be best to help.
It could be a few things, viewport overrides, "xrefoverride" set to 1, plotstyle maybe?

would be good to see what you're seeing.

Is this when viewing the drawing in a layout? If so, you may have "Display Plot Styles" checked on in the PageSetup.

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Originally Posted by rkmcswain

Is this when viewing the drawing in a layout? If so, you may have "Display Plot Styles" checked on in the PageSetup.

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Well, I'm in Model Space...so this SHOULDN'T be an issue.

For the time being, I've just re-did the linework and text - it was only a couple of things, but why only the 1 file?


Thanks for the help.

Hi
Several years ago about 2007 I think I had an entire dwg go grey scale tried everything I could think of sent it to a couple different CAD support techs no one ever figured out what happened. Lucky we had a back up that was just fine.

When you look at the “STYLIZATION” option, it was ON. But when you turn off, voila!.



Command: MAPDISPLAYMANAGER

Display Manager [?/Load/Update/Stylization/eXit] <eXit> :U

Updating...

Display Manager [?/Load/Update/Stylization/eXit] <eXit> :U

Updating...

Display Manager [?/Load/Update/Stylization/eXit] <eXit> :S

Stylization [On/oFf] <On> : F

Display Manager [?/Load/Update/Stylization/eXit] <eXit> :Regenerating model.

So frustrating...but finally.

Thank you, this brought back the colors for me in Modelspace. I was updating some old blocks and I went into a grayscale on certain items when I brought in other drawings. Thank you, gisdude, for posting a solution.

Thank you, gisdude! Great work!