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Change background of DWG files
Original Tip Date:
Sep 4, 2002
Change background of DWG files
You can control the background colour MicroStation V8 uses for AutoCAD DWG files by selecting the
DWG Options
button prior to opening the file. This is a global setting that will be applied to all DWG files opened with MicroStation V8.
It's important to note that while you can change the background colour of a DWG file for viewing inside of MicroStation, this preference is not stored with the DWG file. Ray Bentley explains:
"...it is not posssible to deliver DWG file with a background color set - The color isn't stored in the file at all. The background color is a setting that goes with the AutoCAD installation (in their equivalent of a prefs file) so the same file may appear with different backgrounds on different computers."
With thanks to
Sean Forward
for submitting this tip.
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Tue, Jun 17 2008 1:02 PM
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