Xref layer colours refuse to change

[Rossi]

Hello,

For the whole project we’ve had this issue, however it’s never effected our drawing until now.

When we receive an background, we use setbylayer to change everything to by layer, then in the layer manager, set the layer colour to 8, so all is grey.

Then we xref that background dwg into our model drawings and doodle all over the thing, pretty standard stuff.

But today, in our model drawing, I’d like to change, well, any of the xref’s layer colours, but I cannot! As soon as I make a change, it reverts back to the original ‘8’ colour. It refuses to change colour.

I’ve changed visretian from 0 to 1, open, closed, changed it again, all combinations but to no avail.

I can freeze, turn off & on layers, just not change the colour (or lineweight)

Any ideas or help would be amazing, thanks

G

[Glen1980]

Is it all elements that won't change or just some? Maybe there are blocks which aren't drawn on bylayer which would stop you changing their colours in an xref.

Can you attach the drawing?

[Rossi]

It’s all the layer colours, line weight and type that won’t change. They’ll change if I open & edit the xref, then detach and reattach, but I don’t want to do that, as it’ll mess up the other drawings.

Blocks are all set to ‘By layer’ using setbylayer command.

I’ve attached an etransmit with the xrefs, thanks for looking


I’m using AutoCAD 2009 if that’s any relevance

G

[Glen1980]

This isn't going to help, but the X-refs are all perfectly greyed out when I load the etransmitted drawing. I have a button with a macro on my quick access toolbar

^C^C_visretain;0;^C^C_-xr;r;*;^C^C_visretain;1;

It isn't particularly clever but it turns off visretain reloads all the x-refs then turns visretain back on to update the colours of an x-ref. It will however thaw any frozen layers so a bit limited.

I think there must be a variable I'm not aware of that has changed on your set up.