Dimension color in a drawing

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Hi all

I have a client who wants blue dimensions on the plans. My problem is that the dimensions I set appear black while the colors are well set in the options. If I select the dimension I set (which is therefore black), and I want to change the color the small "default" box is not checked, if I check it the dimension appears in blue. It's a hell of a waste of time to change them manually (even if you can change them all at once).

So my question is more specifically how to make the color of the dimensions that I set default.

I'm on SW 2016.

Thank you for your answers

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Hello

You should use the layers and selection filters to manage the colors, it would be easier.

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Thank you for your answer,

I've already tried to create a blue layer and when I apply it to a dimension it stays in black :/ I probably missed something.

I would still like to do without a layer if possible.

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Hello 

See attached doc

may the force be with you.

 


calques_cote.docx
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Hello 

They must be set in the options of the sheet and not of the system.

You have to open the dimension configuration menu and tell them a slap color for the layer.

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Hello

Now I'm not in front of my computer but it seems to me that there is an icon with a kind of Rainbow and the di you click on it there must be an option that forces the color to black...

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Otherwise in the system options you want to choose the colors, but it will be in general.

 

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As I said above for layers, I don't understand how to apply color.

AC Cobra 427 --> indeed the "color display mode" button changes the dimensions to blue. But big problem, logos on my cover page which are shapes with plain filling in color go black when the dimensions go in color and vice versa :'( (I'm digging to find how all this works)

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By chance, have you selected your print settings correctly?

 

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a.leblanc --> For the system options, yes indeed that's what I did (and that I'm trying to do) but as I say in the topic of the topic, the dimensions I put then appear in black and I have to go and change the color and check the "default" box which is not checked. I would just like this "default" box to be checked by default (a lot of flaws in all this).

For printing, that's not the problem.


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Another solution,

right-click in the menu --> line format

Then use the filter for the odds

And choose your color with the icon of the brush (line color)

 

 

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Is your working layer according to the standard?

may the force be with you.

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a.leblanc --> Yes, that's what I'm doing right now, well, more exactly, I select a dimension --> ctra+a --> color of the line. But it's the same as using filters. This is what you can see on my previous message and it's in this "line color" tool that I would like the "default" to be checked without me having to intervene because the problem with this method is that it's a manual step, Certainly inexpensive in click, but to be repeated with each modification resulting in the addition of dimensions.

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See attached doc.

May the force be with you


calque_cote_2.docx
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and why not switch your drawing via autocrad 

there you will be able to create layers in abundance

and choose the right color

@+

PS your client must have only autocrad plans

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Hello!

I'm going to give myself the point, I found the problem! There is in fact a color assigned to the views (WTF) that blocked the other colors. Thank you all the same for your participation:)

Bye

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Is it specific to your plans or is it general to SW?

Where is it defined?

 

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I dig up the subject. I've had the same problem since yesterday (yet when I went on vacation everything was fine).

The rib colors are set to gray and not Default. If someone can explain to me this story of color of views...

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Hello

Check that your dimensions are in your layer dedicated to your dimension (if you have one), if they are on no layer then it seems to me that they are gray by default.

Kind regards