I'm changing the color of some autocad elements. I have a bunch of leaders. The element color has been reset, but there is another property called Dim Line Color that is overriding the color of the element. How do I change the Dim Line Color property
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Hi @mrmartinstreet,
It sounds to me like the Entity is a Dimension? Dimensions work kind of like Blocks in that when you are reading them you have the option to either explode them or keep it together as a single entity. After creating one in AutoCAD and setting the Dim Line Color I did some experimenting. I found that exploding the Dimension when reading let me set the colors of everything individually, however, I lost the Correct entity type (it was just written out as lines, areas and text). By contrast, if I did not explode the dimension I found that just reading in and reading out the feature the whole dimension took on the 'By Block'. The original Dim Line Color I set got lost and was not even honoured from the template file either.
My conclusion is that with FME there doesn't seem to be a way to control this setting yet. In all my experiments the Dim Line Color always comes out as 'By Block'.
Please let us know if this is not dimension your working with or if you are seeing something different.
Sorry. My first post. Didn't realize the first box was for a title, not the full body of the question.
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Hi @mrmartinstreet,
It sounds to me like the Entity is a Dimension? Dimensions work kind of like Blocks in that when you are reading them you have the option to either explode them or keep it together as a single entity. After creating one in AutoCAD and setting the Dim Line Color I did some experimenting. I found that exploding the Dimension when reading let me set the colors of everything individually, however, I lost the Correct entity type (it was just written out as lines, areas and text). By contrast, if I did not explode the dimension I found that just reading in and reading out the feature the whole dimension took on the 'By Block'. The original Dim Line Color I set got lost and was not even honoured from the template file either.
My conclusion is that with FME there doesn't seem to be a way to control this setting yet. In all my experiments the Dim Line Color always comes out as 'By Block'.
Please let us know if this is not dimension your working with or if you are seeing something different.
Hi @mrmartinstreet,
It sounds to me like the Entity is a Dimension? Dimensions work kind of like Blocks in that when you are reading them you have the option to either explode them or keep it together as a single entity. After creating one in AutoCAD and setting the Dim Line Color I did some experimenting. I found that exploding the Dimension when reading let me set the colors of everything individually, however, I lost the Correct entity type (it was just written out as lines, areas and text). By contrast, if I did not explode the dimension I found that just reading in and reading out the feature the whole dimension took on the 'By Block'. The original Dim Line Color I set got lost and was not even honoured from the template file either.
My conclusion is that with FME there doesn't seem to be a way to control this setting yet. In all my experiments the Dim Line Color always comes out as 'By Block'.
Please let us know if this is not dimension your working with or if you are seeing something different.
I agree that normally this type of element would have a ByBlock or ByLayer color property, but the drawings I'm dealing with are in no way bound to any sort of schema. If you can imagine.
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