https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191591#M103889 Hi Larry,<BR /> <BR /> You are probably switching to an all black penset by accident.<BR /> <BR /> Are you working with viewpoints or views? Views maintain their pen settings regardless, whilst viewpoints can take on the settings of a previously opened view.<BR /> <BR /> If this is the problem, the solution is to either manually change the penset back again (in 'documents' 'pensets') or activate the view which has the correct penset assigned.<BR /> <BR /> Hope that helps. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:11:02 GMT Anonymous 2009-03-11T22:11:02Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191590#M103888 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>ArchiCAD 11<BR /> MacOS X (10.5.6)<BR /> <BR /> Sometimes, for no apparent reason, I'll be working away on a drawing that uses lines and fills of different colors (white background), and suddenly all my lines and fills change to black. I can get it to go back to the way it should be by closing the file and re-opening it, but does anyone know why this occurs, or how to prevent it?<BR /> Thanks in advance for your help.<BR /> Larry</T></DIV> Thu, 25 May 2023 16:08:50 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191590#M103888 Anonymous 2023-05-25T16:08:50Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191591#M103889 Hi Larry,<BR /> <BR /> You are probably switching to an all black penset by accident.<BR /> <BR /> Are you working with viewpoints or views? Views maintain their pen settings regardless, whilst viewpoints can take on the settings of a previously opened view.<BR /> <BR /> If this is the problem, the solution is to either manually change the penset back again (in 'documents' 'pensets') or activate the view which has the correct penset assigned.<BR /> <BR /> Hope that helps. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:11:02 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191591#M103889 Anonymous 2009-03-11T22:11:02Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191592#M103890 Thanks, Peter...<BR /> <BR /> I am using views, but it happens without changing views or viewpoints, or anything. Sometimes, just zooming in or out will make it change. I have discovered that simply saving will make it change back, for some reason.<BR /> Larry Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:25:30 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191592#M103890 Anonymous 2009-03-12T19:25:30Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191593#M103891 Sounds to me like some kind of a display problem.<BR /> You could try a graphics card driver update to its latest version. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:57:31 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Everything-turns-to-black/m-p/191593#M103891 Laszlo Nagy 2009-03-13T09:57:31Z