[View settings - Quick change from Black to white?]

Ah, i see where i was going wrong. Brilliant , thank you. 

[View settings - Quick change from Black to white?]

On 12/9/2013 at 4:59 PM, JimW said:

Quick Preferences allows you to toggle it right from the main Vectorworks UI, but unfortunately this feature wasn't added until I believe Vectorworks 2011/2012.

 

In later versions (I think 2012 was the first) you can also set your sheet layers and design layers to have different background colors, if thats what you meant by layout areas.

 

 

@JimWYou mention you can set background by design layer and sheet layer. I've searched for this but am struggling. We are set up with model and print files, the model files are where the drawing happens in design layers with classes making use of colour. I want these to be black. The print file contains just the sheet layer with the model referenced in and classes set to largely black and white , i want these to be white. Which seems like it should be straight forward. Any help gratefully appreciated.