Hey y'all.
I'm working with an Architect. He just sent me an AutoCad file to work on. I opened it up with DC19, and one of the things I notice is the doors (which are supposed to be yellow) are white. I checked the layer list that came in with the file. Yes, the A-FLOR-DOOR layer is shown as yellow, I "alt-I" one of the doors, and the data on the side actually tells me it is yellow, when in fact, my eyes are telling me it's white.
So I decided to explode the doors. I tried to explode by entity. "0 entities exploded" I tried area. same result. I was going to try group, but I wasn't sure if all doors in the project were tied together as a group, so I went to the layer manager, and made A-FLOR-DOOR "active only" which made EVERYTHING disappear. even the doors. So I turned all layers back on, and everything except the doors came back. Like they never existed in the first place. I closed the drawing file and re-opened it and they were back again. This time I immediately made that layer active only and exploded with the "explode symbol" button on. It worked, and now I can change the color to yellow so it will print with the correct pen, but what is this going to do to him when I send it back saved as a DWG and those doors are not symbols anymore?
Anybody have experiences with AutoCad like this?
I'm working with an Architect. He just sent me an AutoCad file to work on. I opened it up with DC19, and one of the things I notice is the doors (which are supposed to be yellow) are white. I checked the layer list that came in with the file. Yes, the A-FLOR-DOOR layer is shown as yellow, I "alt-I" one of the doors, and the data on the side actually tells me it is yellow, when in fact, my eyes are telling me it's white.
So I decided to explode the doors. I tried to explode by entity. "0 entities exploded" I tried area. same result. I was going to try group, but I wasn't sure if all doors in the project were tied together as a group, so I went to the layer manager, and made A-FLOR-DOOR "active only" which made EVERYTHING disappear. even the doors. So I turned all layers back on, and everything except the doors came back. Like they never existed in the first place. I closed the drawing file and re-opened it and they were back again. This time I immediately made that layer active only and exploded with the "explode symbol" button on. It worked, and now I can change the color to yellow so it will print with the correct pen, but what is this going to do to him when I send it back saved as a DWG and those doors are not symbols anymore?
Anybody have experiences with AutoCad like this?