Topic: Brainlock or just to set in old methods.... visretain & changes lay color

[sourdough]

Hi All
   I have a Base dwg, and after working on it for awhile, I found that I have to change a color on a layer. No big deal, except I use this dwg as an xref for a layout sht. I'm using visretain 1 in the layout sht. I found that the color of the one layer that I did change won't change in the layout sht that the base dwg has ref. through a viewport. So, I'm thinking that all my viewports are set to have all my layers turned on and off per the viewport. I don't want to just visretain 0 and reload the xref as all my viewports layers will blow to Blank. So, I have found that if I go back to my base dwg and rename the layer in question, then go back to my layout sht, the color will update as I want without messing with my layers through my viewport. I also have to recon. layers too.
   So, my question is there another way to make a simple change of a layer color in a base dwg so that it will affect the layout sht dwg thru a viewport with the same change of color for that layer by using xref reload? I did take the time to hose all my layerstates as I thought that might have affected things. Any thoughts?


MJP

[mjfarrell]

why not just change it (the color) in the Xref|Layer Name Properties in the Layout drawing?

[sourdough]

why not just change it (the color) in the Xref|Layer Name Properties in the Layout drawing?

The answer is that I also have 4 other layout dwg's that have to have the same changes shown
and don't want to have to do each layout sht over with the layers in question.

MJP

[mjfarrell]

probably easier to chage the ONE layer in four layout drawing using exported layerstates than it would be to reload your Xref files...

[sourdough]

probably easier to chage the ONE layer in four layout drawing using exported layerstates than it would be to reload your Xref files...

Thanks Mike. I'll give that a try. 

MJP