Applying AVEVA Colours

Command:

pdms_colour (or pdms_color)

Menu Selection:

PDMS Draw>PDMS Colours

Initial Prompt:

User/<Pdms>:

Use:

(Simply type the command or make the menu selection; there are no arguments or options)

Note:
Each Draft (GT_) layer on a Drawing Editor drawing corresponds to a colour used in the drawing, so all entities in a given colour appear on the same AutoDRAFT layer. Each entity on the Draft layers has the default AutoCAD colour attribute BYLAYER. The DXF output does not specify layer colours, so all entities appear in the default AutoCAD colour 7 (white).

This facility gives you the ability to colour entities to match the colours used by Draft. If you want to see the Draft colours reproduced in AutoCAD the pdms_colour function will apply colours close to the full range of standard PDMS colours (1 - 272) to layers ‘GT_1’ through ‘GT_272’.

General points:

• If colours have already been set for the Draft layers they will be changed by pdms_colour.

• If individual entities have been assigned specific colours they will be unaffected by the pdms_colour command.

• If entities have been coloured individually, and you want them to appear in the layer colour, then you should use the AutoCAD chprop command to change their colours to BYLAYER.