Active Color

Used to set the Active Color and change the colors of selected elements. The Active Color specifies the color of an element upon placement and is stored as a value in the 0-255 range.

Color can also be set ByCell or ByLevel. If ByCell is selected, when a cell is placed the active color is used in place of the color used when the cell was created. If ByLevel is selected, when an element is placed the color defined for the active level is used to display the element.

The number of the Active Color displays in two ways: in the color box itself as you move the pointer, and at the bottom of the pop-up color palette in the Attributes tool box.

If elements are selected, their colors will change to the newly selected color.

Key-in: ACTIVE COLOR [color]

The color palette represents the active color table, which can have up to 256 colors. The active color table can be modified in the Color Table dialog box, which is opened by choosing Color Table from the Settings menu.

Choosing Save Settings from the File menu saves the Active Color setting to the DGN file so it may be used as the initial color value the next time the DGN file is opened.

ByCell is only enabled, by default, in DWG workmode. You can enable ByCell in DGN workmode by adding _USTN_CAPABILITY > –CAPABILITY_NO_BYCELL to the workmode.cfg configuration file.