Crosshair color in layout

[BeKirra]

I upgraded to AutoCAD 2013.
I noticed that crosshair color outside the sheet area in the layout is different to the one in v2011.
Is there any setting to do the trick?
please see the screenshots attached.

Thanks for your help.

[tedg]

I upgraded to AutoCAD 2013.
I noticed that crosshair color outside the sheet area in the layout is different to the one in v2011.
Is there any setting to do the trick?
please see the screenshots attached.

Thanks for your help.

I don't know of a setting to make it look like your 2011 screen shot, but you could just change the color of the crosshairs in PS.
Just a thought.

[Opie]

I am not seeing this behavior in 2013. It is working OOTB as shown in your 2011 image.

[BlackBox]

I am also not able to reproduce the OP's issue, AutoCAD and Civil 3D 2013 (at home).

Separately....

... you could just change the color of the crosshairs in PS.
Just a thought.

I actually use a Document Collection and Command reactor combo to programmatically change my crosshair color when switching between Model, Paper, and PViewport Active for visual feedback of 'where' I am at the cursor... That combined with my CursorSize command reactor to automagically change my cursorsize when grip stretching, moving, etc.. Lemon squeezy.

The crosshair color gimmick is not posted publicly (yet), as I am in the process of porting it from Visual LISP to .NET, and am considering remitting to Autodesk Exchange (this being one of several innovations I have completed, or am working on).

Feel free to ask questions though (for those that are interested), and I'll see if I cannot help point you in the right direction in the meantime.

[gfreddog]

I don't know of a setting to make it look like your 2011 screen shot, but you could just change the color of the crosshairs in PS.
Just a thought.

I am unable to duplicate the issue in AutoCAD 2013 "Vanilla". Maybe it's the old "video card problem"?

BTW I use the "Tint for X Y Z" color setting for my cross-hairs so they are always Green and Red.

[BeKirra]

Thanks for your reply.
This also is a sample on tedg's screenshot, the portion of the crosshair outside the paper area should be "black".
On his screenshot the crosshair color shows no change.
This is exactly same as mine.

This is not an issue of change crosshair color entirely but only the portion outside the paper area.

BTW, my machine was bought 2 years ago. and there was no problem with v2011.

Win7 pro 64bit
i7 CPU
ATI radeon HD 5650
8Gb of ram

[Opie]

Was the crosshair color changed from the default out of the box value? If so, can you reset it to the default setting to see if that fixes it?

[BeKirra]

Was the crosshair color changed from the default out of the box value? If so, can you reset it to the default setting to see if that fixes it?

No, it was not changed.

[irneb]

That looks like some sort of XOR colour. Like you get with the lisp grdraw when you set its colour to -1. Though I can't seem to find any way to set crosshairs to negative colours to try and do the same.

[BeKirra]

That looks like some sort of XOR colour. Like you get with the lisp grdraw when you set its colour to -1. Though I can't seem to find any way to set crosshairs to negative colours to try and do the same.

Again, is this a v2013 issue?
Like since v2011 the UCS icon changed in model space.