FormatCurrent Color

The Current Color command enables you to change the current color to the one of a selected entity. The current color is the color used to draw entities. It is displayed and dynamically updated in the Color drop-down list button in the Statusbar.

If you change the current color, all entities subsequently created will be drawn using the new color you chose, while the ones created before you selected the new color will not be affected by the change.
To change the current color, proceed as follows:

  1. Start the Current Color command
  2. Select an entity in the drawing.

The color of the selected entity will be set as the current one and it will be immediately displayed in the Color drop-down list button in the Statusbar.

The Current Color command can be used also when another command is active, which can be very useful. Suppose, for example, you have started the Parallel Line command: once you have selected the reference line, you can change the current color so that it will be applied to the resulting parallel line, which will be drawn in the new current color you chose.

An alternative way to use the Color command

Instead of setting the current color by changing it to the one of a selected entity, the Current Color command also enables you to make the change using another method.
  1. If not already displayed, open the Input/Output window using the I/O Window command
  2. Start the Current Color command
  3. In the Command Line box of the Input/Output window, type the number of the color to be set as the current one and hit ENTER on the keyboard.

The new color will be set as the current one and it will be immediately displayed in the Color drop-down list button in the Statusbar.

The following illustration shows the first 32 colors — along with the color numbers — of the default color set.

About color sets, see "Set and save a color set"; about defining the colors to be used by the program, see Colors and Materials.

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