Coloured Xrefs

Greetings,

I am working on a project where the building has several floors each on its own drawing and it is really usefull to xref the other floors into the drawing and overlay them to see where things like stairwells and core line up. However Given that all the drawings are set up on our layer standards it is very difficult to distinguish the xreffed drawing from the open drawing at a glance.

Is there some way that I can xref a drawing in and have it all displayed in one specific colour without changing the colours of the original drawing? I have tried to make a copy and manually colour it and paste as a block to compare and whilst it does work, others in the team are working on the other floors and it is crucial that the drawings can be updated as xrefs were intended to.

Thanks in advance for any tips you might have, take care.

Sal.

Try having a look at the layer properties menu. you can set up diff colours there, also look at using layer states, see if that works

We do this all the time for the very same purpose u mentioned.

go to layer manager, slect the xref file in left columns so all its layer willl come in right column selct all by pressing ctrl+a & chnage the color. & than repeat the process for all the xref.

it does not effect the origianl xref file.

make sure to chnage 'visretain' value to 1 before you do other wiase once you close & reopen the drawing al the layer will revert to original colors.

Hello Dipali,

Thanks for that, I have however tried this and it does not seem to change the xrefs colour. Is there another setting that I am missing?

Many thnaks.

BB.

Guys,

Managed to crack this, do as advised above but also you must make sure that on the source drawing (the one being xreffed in) the colour of everything is set to 'BY LAYER'. Then when the drawing is xreffed into another you can go to layer manager and change the colour globally. Cheers.

BB