Text color question 1

[darnell]

Our legacy data comes from AutoCad. When you open an AutoCad dwg in SolidWorks, how do you change the color of the text?

I can change the layer which changes the color if it set to bylayer but we have some text that is a different color (due to plotting) on a certain layer.

I have looked through the SW properties menus and do not see where I can change that. Am I missing something easy or is it impossible to change?

I am using both SW2004 and 05 and don't seem to be able to change it in either version

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[CADGemini]

I'm using SW 2001+ at work and it does not have this ability.


But when I was using SW 2004 and 05 I think if you turn on your "Font" toolbar you can change the color of the text from there.

To get there: RMB on any toolbar and select "Font" from the menu.

Best Regards,
Jon

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[mackman]

darnell

I use the line format toolbar. I window the items on the screen that I want to change. Then I pick the paint brush (line color icon) on the line format toolbar. This changes everything selected to the color you pick.

 

[darnell]

Thanks Mackman, that worked!!

jksolid, that worked but...

The font toolbar is actually formatting and I was able to change to color to anything but black. The layer is set to black but when I selected black, it remained Magenta. Not sure why but thanks for the help