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symbols must be exploded to change their color

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:14 pm
by brookefox
The only way to change the colors of symbols is to explode them and re-symbolyze them?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:47 pm
by Neil Blanchard
Hello Brooke,

Yes, exploding them (to their original layers), and then I would use Mask/Color if there are a lot of entities of more than one color, to change to the colors that you need them to be. And then Redefine the old symbol to the new version -- and then you can use Reload to change all the instances of that symbol to the new color(s).

PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:21 pm
by brookefox
Thanks much, Neil. Being an old acad user (with a long hiatus from CAD) I seem to remember that one could define blocks with colors and linetypes by layer or some such and thus have some control over block colors without redefinition. Doubtless on someone's wishlist.