Blood on my drawings!

Hi All,

Got one that's got me stumped good and proper.

As of mid-morning this morning, all of the annotations (dimensions,
balloons, hole callouts, notes etc) I'm adding to drawings are showing
up red! (hence the blood reference in the subject). All of the
existing ones are in black, but any new ones I add are red. Now of our
4 workstations, two of them have started doing this today, but another
two are still functioning fine and adding in annotations in the right
colours.

Now I've gone through all of the places I can find and I can't see
anything I might have changed to change it. I've tried changing the
layer colours, the colours in tools>options, I've tried starting from
blank templates, and NOTHING I do can change the annotation colours
from red.

Anyone got any suggestions? I'm stuck halfway through a drawing set
until I can get this fixed!

George.

 

Maybe asking the obvious, but is your current layer red, whatever it's
called?

WT

 

Cheers Wayne... don't worry about offering obvious solutions, because
it's always the obvious things you miss!

Sadly, no. I've changed the colour of the layer and while I can change
the colour of all my existing annotations to whatever colour I want,
the ones I've added remain steadfastly RED.

George.

 

There is a way to change the current color such that it changes the
system color, not the document color. I think you have to select
somewhere off of the drawing sheet, and then change the text color to do
it. This has been this way for probably almost a decade.

Here it is, I just tested it. With nothing selected, click the Line
Color tool on the Line Format toolbar, and set it to black or whatever
color you want it to be. That won't fix any existing blood on yor
drawing, buyt it will keep any more from spilling,.

By the way, next time aks Banker about things like that. He's an expert
with reading the Bible adn seeing all those videos. I mean the guys a
solidworks giant. He shodnt be so stingy with his wisdon.

Daisy.

 

BINGO, that's the ticket! Lord knows how it changed! My guess is that
one of ym designer's SWX crashed this morning and defaulted his
computer to that setting for some reason, When I opened one of his
docs, it must have set mine to that as well.

Thanks a million for the tip! It really was one of those obscure
hidden ones eh?

Now to mop up all the blood!

 

I've had this happen to me before too. Instead of selecting a
particular color, set it to default (lower LH corner of "Line Color"
menu) and it will follow your layer coloring. You should also be able
to select all the dimension that you put in before and set them back
to default.

Rory