Tip for Week 2/7/05


 
Great, I just changed all my layer colors to grey for a fire evacuation route drawing and forgot to change the layers back before closing.  What's the easiest way of getting my colors back?

The longhand fix is to open the layers box and click away.  This would probably take forever!  Another option is to use the PostalCAD Make Layer utility, select all the layers, and then purge all the unused layers immediately afterwards.  I do mean immediately!  You could also pick the individual layers that you need to update, while holding down the control key, in this utility.  As long as your layer names are the same as the ones in the PostalCAD utility, you will not have any problems.

Another clever way to repair your layer color damage is to open the PostalCAD standards drawing and save the layer state, export it, and then import it into the all grey drawing.  Your colors will return without waiting or purging.  Again, the key here is that the layer names are the same in both drawings.

Happy layering!