B&W Option in Viewports shouldn't affect Annotations

[Kevin McAllister]

I use the B&W option in the Advanced tab of my Sheet Layer Viewports all the time. I wish choosing that option did not affect the Viewport's Annotations.

Often I want to homogenize (ie. make B&W) someone else's crazy colourful Autocad layers and then flag things in colour in my annotations....

Kevin

(Yes, I know I can do it in class overrides to some degree (other people's symbols are often a problem) but I'm not looking for a work-around.)

[bcd]

Layer colours?

[Benson Shaw]

Workarounds:

Would stacked viewports work?

ACad below in BW

VWX with annotations above in color. For correct scale, create this VP in a blank area of any DL of same scale as the ACad.

OR

if dims not required, just annotate on (not in) the Acad Viewport. Group the annotations with a bounding poly same size/shape as the VP.

-B