AutoCAD Architecture :: Exploding Doors / Window And Wall Objects - Colour

Jan 9, 2012

I'm trying to send a set of drawings for my consultant. They will be using it as a background for their mechanical and electrical drawings and they only need the 2d information. They want to be able to explode them and remove any items they don't need before switching all the layer colours to grey.

When they get the drawings and explode them the doors and walls explode onto the correct layer but the colour of those object and lines are now set to the actual color of the layer rather than colour "bylayer". The line actually take on the colour of the layer in the properties dialogue box. Therefore when they change the colour of the layer to grey the doors remain 'red'.

I would like the doors/walls to stay on their respective layers...AND their colour to be BYLAYER when exploded.

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