Exporting ACA to ACAD

[jkramer]

Yet another issue that we have discovered suddenly....

Trying to export ACA 2008 to ACAD 2004 - having issues getting there, but when it finally happens and we open the file in 2006, the layer colors are changed? Some, but not all are changed to .35 gray. WHERE did this come from? It's about half of the layers. It would be painstaking to change the layer colors for all ceiling, demo and new construction objects back to what they should be...

Thanks for any input.
Jessica

[H-Angus]

Yet another issue that we have discovered suddenly....

Trying to export ACA 2008 to ACAD 2004 - having issues getting there, but when it finally happens and we open the file in 2006, the layer colors are changed? Some, but not all are changed to .35 gray. WHERE did this come from? It's about half of the layers. It would be painstaking to change the layer colors for all ceiling, demo and new construction objects back to what they should be...

Thanks for any input.
Jessica

First thought is, Acad never used to be able to display true colour, colours. So I wonder if the layers that have changed have not been given a 0-255 colour but a true colour (if that makes sense).

[jkramer]

That's a great idea - if we used true colors at all....We only use 256 colors for our layers. The ones that we mainly noticed are supposed to be the colors 2-7. Like yellow, green, magenta. That's what is baffling.