Customize the color theme

Pick the color scheme ConstructiVision draws with, edit it role by role, add your company logo, and save it as your default.

A theme is a named set of drawing colors — one per role (dimensions, connections, reveals, hardware, and so on) — plus an optional company logo. Themes are applied deliberately: nothing recolors on its own. OK applies the colors on screen to the current drawing; Set Active makes a theme the palette every subsequent ConstructiVision draw uses.

The Theme / Color Scheme Manager

Open it with the Color Theme toolbar button (or the CV-THEME command). The dialog — Theme / Color Scheme Manager — has four areas: the theme library, the two role-color columns, the company logo, and the save row.

The theme library

The Theme list holds the two built-in presets plus every theme you’ve saved. Load brings the selected theme’s colors into the editor, Set Active makes it the default without touching the current drawing, Delete removes a saved theme.

Preset

Palette

modern

The default — dark-gray dimensions and text, blue connections, light-gray reveals, red hardware and pick / brace points.

classic

The legacy palette the older releases drew with — magenta dimensions, yellow reveals, blue hardware, red wall perimeter.

The built-ins are starting points: Load one and edit from there. They can never be overwritten or deleted — Save and Delete refuse the names modern and classic.

Edit the role colors

Each row is one role: Pick… opens AutoCAD’s standard color picker, and the chosen AutoCAD color number appears beside a live color swatch.

Panel colors

Detail + site colors

Solid dim / NUM bg

Greenplate

Dimensions + text

Pick / brace points

Connections

Hardware / dowels

Reveal

Footing

Solid

Wall perimeter

Perimeter

Grid

Custom

Number blocks

Save, apply, set the default

  • Save (with a name in the Save as company theme row) stores the current editor state as a named theme in your library — it appears in the Theme list immediately.

  • OK applies the colors currently shown to the open drawing. If you also gave the theme a name, OK saves it and makes it the active default in the same step.

  • Set Active changes only the default — the palette used by every ConstructiVision draw from now on — without recoloring anything already on screen.

  • Cancel changes nothing.

What a theme affects

  • Layer colors by role — including the panels referenced into a site plan, so a site drawing recolors consistently with its panels. Layers that are turned off stay off.

  • Site annotation entities — wall dimension text and number blocks, and the site grid with its bubbles and numbers.

  • The title-block logo (above).

Where themes live

Themes are per Windows user, not per project or per drawing — saved under your user application-data folder, they follow you across sessions and projects. Two notes:

  • Sharing across a company: point the CV_THEME_SHARE environment variable at a shared folder and its themes become loadable by name on every machine; a company-active default in that folder is used when a user hasn’t set their own active theme.

  • Resilient by design: a missing or unreadable theme file never breaks a draw — ConstructiVision falls back to the standard modern palette.

Notes

  • Colors are AutoCAD color numbers (ACI). What each number looks like on paper depends on your plot style — see Plot and print drawings.

  • Weld-connection face colors are fixed in this release. The up-face (teal) and down-face (blue) colors of weld connections are stored on the theme record for a future release but are not yet changed by it.

  • The dialog needs the full AutoCAD window — like every ConstructiVision dialog, it is part of the drawing session, not a stand-alone tool.