COLOR — Color

Sets the color of new objects.

• Command: COLOR · Global name: _COLOR · Alias: COL, COLOUR, DDCOLOR
• Ribbon: Home › Properties
• Menu: Format

Sets the color of new objects with the Select Color dialog box, as in AutoCAD. From the command line use -COLOR.

Usage

1. Enter COLOR (or COL) or click Color on the ribbon.
2. In the dialog box, choose the tab and the color:

• Index Color: ByLayer (each object takes its layer color, the usual choice), ByBlock (it takes the color of the block it is inserted in), the 7 standard colors and the 255 of Index color (ACI).
• True color: hue, saturation and luminance (HSL) or red, green and blue (RGB).
• Color Books: named colors from a book; it includes an extract of RAL Classic (AutoCAD .acb books are not read).

3. Click OK.

Notes

• The PROPERTIES palette still lets you change the current color and that of the selected objects.
• The current color is stored in the CECOLOR variable.

See also

PROPERTIES · LINETYPE · LWEIGHT · LAYER