Changing Layer Color

You can modify the color of any physical or logical layer from the Layers dialog box.

From the Manipulate menu, select Visibility Control, and then select Layers.

The Layers dialog box opens.

Note: From the AutoVue toolbar, you can also click Layers .

If necessary, click Expand

to open the Logical Layers section.

Select the layer or layers for which you want to change the color.
You can select a physical layer from the Physical Layers section; logical layers associated with the selected physical layer are also selected. You can also select individual logical layers from the Logical Layers section, or press the Shift or Control key while selecting.to select multiple layers.

Once you have selected a layer, you can do one of the following modify its attributes:

Click Modify Color

. Use this button if you want to change the color of all logical layers associated with a selected physical layer, or to change the color of many selected logical layers at the same time.

Double-click a square in the Color column

of the Logical Layers section. Use this option to change the color of individual logical layers.

Note: Do not click the Color column heading unless you want to sort the layers in the Logical Layers section according to color.

Select the color that you want from the menu.

The color of all selected layers changes in the Color column.

Click Apply to save the changes.

The display updates in the workspace based on the changes you made to the layer color.

You can now save your changes as a user-defined layer set

See Creating User-Defined Layer Sets

Click Close to close the Layers dialog box.