Background colour

I am using AutoCAD 2002. My drawing window background is black. I use the
design centre constantly. Within the design centre is a preview pane whose
background colour is white, I wish it to be black as well so I can better
see my block previews. I do not want to change my "Windows" colours
globally. In the options under the display tab we can change "AutoCAD"
default colours of a number of different display items. The preview pane in
the design centre is not listed there.

Does anyone out there know how to change this?

Arie

 

It's dependant on the window's background color. My design center
background is a very light green and my blocks are clearly visible because
the icons themselves have a black background. Maybe your blocks were
created with a white background in AutoCAD? What do you see if you change
the windows background color to black or some other dark color?

 

Try using color 8 as a drawing background.
Much easyer for your eyes and helps a lot with visibility in the tools like
addcenter.
May take several hours (or some days, depending on age ) ) to get used to
it.
Newbies always start on black in our office, after some hours they are
convinced, grey 8 is better.

Jan

 

Hello Again News Group

Here is some information that suits me and may be appropriate knowledge for
others as well. The back ground colour of the preview pane in the design
centre when an entire drawing is highlighted is white. When you highlight a
block within a drawing (as in my case) it appears black.

So the solution to my problem is to not leave my blocks as drawings but to
place them an a drawing sheet and view them as blocks. I hope in future
issues of AutoCAD this will not be necessary.

Regards,

Arie