Viewport overrides and blocks

[.chad]

do viewport overrides not cascade through blocks? i have an elevation with a number of blocks in it (windows and doors) and the color overrides for the VP dont seem to go through the blocks. is there a setting somewhere to change this, or do i actually have to edit my blocks / layers?

edit: they dont seem to affect hatch patterns either

[dzatto]

It works for my hatch patterns . Are your doors AEC blocks or ones you created yourself? If you created them, I think they had to be created on layer 0. I have a few blocks that had one line that wasn't on layer 0 (which I knew about), and when I changed the viewport color, the block changed except for that one line. I checked my doors, and they didn't change color until I went into the door style and un-checked "by material" in the display properties for plan view.

[.chad]

It works for my hatch patterns . Are your doors AEC blocks or ones you created yourself? If you created them, I think they had to be created on layer 0. I have a few blocks that had one line that wasn't on layer 0 (which I knew about), and when I changed the viewport color, the block changed except for that one line. I checked my doors, and they didn't change color until I went into the door style and un-checked "by material" in the display properties for plan view.

it was an outside drawing, and it was an absolute mess. 99% of it had properties set by object, and there were more than a few occurances where lines didnt close properly, or even come to a right angle like they should. i have beating my head against a wall for two days trying to work with it.

[dzatto]

Now I don't claim to do everything correctly in ACA, but doesn't that just make your day when a draftsman can't even draw right angles? Here, have a few on me!