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About <font color=#6b238e>J. </font><font color=#ff7f00>B. </font><font color=#0000ff>Borge</font>
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AutoCAD - xref


Expert: <font color=#6b238e>J. </font><font color=#ff7f00>B. </font><font color=#0000ff>Borge</font> - 3/21/2007

Question
i am adding my design to an already made drawing.
i want to xref the original drawing and work my design on top of it, but i want the xref to look gray and dark and obviously less important than my design, so my design can outstand from the background xref.
i can not change the colors of the layers of the original drawing. i can not do anything to the original drawing, i can only view it, copy it, paste it, block it, or xret it.
but in my model space, i still want to see it all gray and uneditable.
please let me know how to do that.

Answer
Alonso,

You should be able to change the colors thru your Layer Manager in your current dwg. Xrefs will be preceded by the Xref name and then layer name. I.E. MyOrig|construction. In your case, all layers starting w/ MyOrig* layer will have a screened (grey) color.

Hope this helps!

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