Grey Lines In Title Block 3

[LindseyAC]

All of a sudden, when I go to open a new drawing, after I have created the model, the lines in my title block are gray! They weren't before, and now all of a sudden they are. Also the borderlines. I cannot find anyway to fix this problem. Please help!

 

[JMirisola]

It sounds like the difference between being in 'edit sheet format' mode and 'edit sheet' mode. Are you a lone user? If not, it's quite possible that someone saved your template(s) while in the edit sheet format mode, which would give you the black lines. The error was then corrected, so that the template was in 'edit sheet' mode, which would give you gray lines.

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[LindseyAC]

How do I fix it?

 

[JMirisola]

I don't think it's necessarily broken. Are you working in a multi-user environment? If so, do you all work off of the same templates? If so, you might want to find out who changed it and why.
That being said, to fix it:
Open a new drawing, RMB in the field and select 'edit sheet format'. Open your layers tool bar and create a new layer called 'Format' and set up the line font as you want it.
Select all the gray lines that you want to change to black and move them to the 'Format' layer. RMB in the field and select 'edit sheet'. Save as your template. Also do a File->Save Sheet Format.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
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[LindseyAC]

No one else has saved to this file. I went into options and changed the color og my inactive entities to black and that seems to have fixed it. Does that sound right to you?

 

[JMirisola]

Yup, that works even better.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Toggling the Color Display Mode option in the Line Format toolbar will have that effect.

 

[JMirisola]

Wouldn't that only affect the line(s) you had selected?

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

No, it affects entities at the system level, not individual selections.

 

[JMirisola]

But only active entities, right?

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

No, even the ones that just lay there doing nothing.

Not sure what you mean by "active entities"?

Just open one of the standard SW .slddrw templates, and then toggle the Color Display Mode button to see what is affected.

 

[fcsuper]

Well, there is a way to "fix" this. The lines are gray because they are underdefined. There's two ways to make them black, regardless to which view mode you are in.

1. Fully define your entities in the sheet format with dimensions or fixing them. If you use dimensions, simply hide them after you create them. If you need to make changes later, unhide annotations will show you the hidden dims.

-OR-

2. Create a new layer on your drawing and apply the color black to that layer. Change all of your line entities in your title block to that layer.

Matt Lorono
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[JMirisola]

I was figuring her lines were gray because they were within the sheet format. My lines are gray. I look at it as they're "suppressed", and un-editable, unless I'm in "edit sheet format". Make sense?

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
CAD Administrator, Ultimate Survival Technologies
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[fcsuper]

They don't have to be gray at all, though.

Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion