Adjust the visual settings in DWG Compare

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First, we have to go back to the floor plan sample tab.

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Then from the view tab, click on D

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WG compare,

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you'll immediately get a file box.

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Click on floor plan sample version two from your dataset folder.

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Then click the open button.

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The drawing will display with a thick blue box around the edges.

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This is your visual cue that you are in the comparison mode.

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Most of the geometry has turned gray

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but some are green,

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some are red and there are some dull yellow revision clouds scattered about.

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There is also a small docked compare toolbar at the top of the blue box.

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Let's go through the toolbar.

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We'll start on the left side with the gear icon which will display your settings.

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I'll click on it now move it off to the side a bit and pin it in place.

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If I didn't pin it, it would go away when it loses my focus.

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The comparison results are color coded objects not

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in the current drawing are shown in red.

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Those that are only in the current drawing are green

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items that appear in both drawings are gray.

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We'll skip over draw order for a moment

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and we'll find that revision clouds appear as yellow.

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There is a light bulb on the left side of each entry,

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use it to toggle the visibility of any of these items.

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Let's turn each one off and back on so that we can see the results.

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Of course, you can have multiple differences or rev clouds off. At the same time,

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the color swatches allow you to change colors.

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Just click on a swatch to display the color palette.

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I'll click on the gray, no different swatch and darken the gray sun.

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You can also change the revision clouds from

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rectangular to polygonal as I'm doing here.

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And there's a slider where you can adjust the arc length of the cloud.

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There are a couple of filters at the bottom.

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You can remove hatches from the comparison or text objects.

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I'll click on the icon for text and you'll

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see that all of the textual objects disappear.

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That includes attributes as we have in this drawing.

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Also,

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revision clouds may adjust to exclude any removed text.

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I'll click it again to see the text.

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All right.

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That's the settings box.

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I'll unpin it and remove focus to dismiss it.