When creating a new layer and changing its color, you may sometimes find that the color change is not applied as expected.
This can happen when you change the layer color while you are still in the editing mode for the layer name.
In this scenario, two pieces of information (the change of the layer name, and the change of the layer color) are sent to AutoCAD exactly at the same time.
On fast machines, this is not a problem, but on older machines that cannot compute the information as quickly, it can happen that only the first piece of the change (the change of layer name) is actually applied.
Our development team is looking into this already. In the mean time, if you run into this issue, you can work around it by making sure that you let the change of the layer name complete (just click once outside the layer name field) before changing the layer color.
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In layer manager I only have problems with making a new layer when a layer that is not plotted is current.
Will that ever change?
Posted by: Rob Scheepsjongen | January 11, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Personally, I have the same thing on a 3.4GHz quad core with 8GB RAM. This is far from an old machine.
After 1 year with this worry, it's time to lean on. Hopefully we will have a patch for 2012.
Posted by: Damien | January 12, 2012 at 02:13 AM
Hi Damien,
as mentioned, our developers are already looking into this issue. I would encourage you to sign up for the Beta programme for the next AutoCAD version if you are interested. You can sign up for here:
https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=4A50803F0B5945929A4DA9483021630F
Best Regards,
Silvia
Posted by: Silvia Menon | January 12, 2012 at 02:46 AM
Hi Rob,
this seems to be a separate issue - if you are seeing this in AutoCAD 2012, could you post it on the forum at http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2012/bd-p/529 with steps to reproduce? Then we can investigate.
Best Regards
Silvia
Posted by: Silvia Menon | January 12, 2012 at 03:53 AM