SUBENTCOLORTO

SUBENTCOLORTO converts the colours of everything inside blocks to byLayer or byBlock in one go, down to nested blocks. You don’t need to explode the blocks. Useful when imported blocks have fixed colours so they no longer follow the layer colour, and you want to keep the colours in the drawing clean and consistent.

Starting

Type SUBENTCOLORTO on the command line, or use the button in the ribbon on the SCAD Core tab, Layers panel.

How it works

1. The command asks Convert subentity colors to [byLayer/byBlock]:. Choose byLayer or byBlock.
2. The command goes through all blocks in model space, including blocks inside blocks, and converts the colour of all parts inside them. The attributes of the blocks are converted too.
3. The drawing is refreshed and the command reports the result, for example Converted N subentities to byLayer. Processed N block definitions. Skipped N external references.

Options

Option	What it does
byLayer	The parts inside blocks follow the colour of their layer.
byBlock	The parts inside blocks follow the colour of the block they are in.