And it was all yellow...

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  And it was all yellow...
  June 5, 2008, 01:18 PM Jarred Osborne

  My apologies for quoting Cold Play, but it may aptly describe the text color (yellow) on some of your legacy drawings when opening them up in AutoCAD Mechanical 2009.  Here's a quick way to bring a little visibility back into your life...

  Start with the AMOPTIONS command (Tools>Options) and select the AM:Standards tab.  Double click on the active standard (in this case, ANSI) to move into the Standard Settings dialog. 

   In the Object properties area, click on the Settings button.

  

  Click on the Restore Defaults button to revert layer and color settings back to factory defaults, and....

  

  Your preview should automatically update to a more visible shade of Miami Blue

   

  Depending on whether the current background color is dark or light, the appropriate object color and layer settings will be applied to the current drawing.  Please note that if you have customized the layer settings in your drawing, they will be reset to the factory defaults.  (Ex:  if you have set centerlines to be created on a custom layer, other than AM_7, they will be reset back to AM_7)

  Thanks to Lakshmanan Lakshmanan for his help in this content development ;o)

   

   

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  November 6, 2008 12:54 AM Jay Tedeschi

  Dude... Love the Coldplay reference. And this by the way is an EXCELLENT tip.