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How to recolor a block inserted in a drawing?

If you have defined your block in a layer other than 0 or using entities with explicitly assigned colors (not BYLAYER or BYBLOCK), you will have problems to change the color of its references (insertions).

In such case use the BL0 (or the FIXBLOCK) LISP utility which redefines your block to layer 0. Both of these utilities can be downloaded from www.cadstudio.cz/download

You can also use the REFEDIT command or the newer SETBYLAYER (also for nested blocks).

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29.7.2002 6518×

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applies to: AutoCAD · AutoCAD Architecture · AutoCAD Map ·

See also:
Tip 11469:	Why you should not use the DEFPOINTS layer to draw geometry?
Tip 11439:	Replace block instances (incl. dynamic) with another block.
Tip 11404:	Operations with attributes inside a block - fields.
Tip 11198:	Justified attribute text in mirrored blocks (AutoCAD)
Tip 11171:	Total number of layouts as a field.

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