Resets overridden properties to BYLAYER. Description Changes the value of overridden properties (color, linetype, lineweight, material, plot style,

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    <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">SETBYLAYER command</h1>
    
    
	<div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">Resets overridden properties to BYLAYER.</p>
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            <p class="p">Changes the value of overridden properties (color, linetype, lineweight, material, plot style, and transparency ) back to the default value of BYLAYER.</p>
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            <p class="p">Select the entities whose properties will be set as BYLAYER according to the value of the SETBYLAYERMODE system variable.</p>
            <p class="p">Enter ‘all’ to select all non-frozen entities in the current viewport.</p>
            <p class="p">When entities contain blocks the BricsCAD asks whether blocks should have their properties changed.</p>
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                        <dt class="dt dlterm">Settings</dt>
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                            <p class="p">Allows to select the entity properties to be changed from the SetByLayer settings dialog box:</p>
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                                <li class="li">Color - resets the color of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
                                <li class="li">Linetype - resets the linetype of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
                                <li class="li">Lineweight - resets the lineweight of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
                                <li class="li">Material - resets the material of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
                                <li class="li">Plot Style - (only in drawings with plot styles) resets the plot style of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
                                <li class="li">Transparency - resets the transparency value of the selected entities to BYLAYER.</li>
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                <div class="note note note_note" id="CMD_setbylayer__note_rwq_xyn_wqb"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> The settings are saved through the SETBYLAYERMODE system variable.</div>
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                <div class="note note note_note" id="CMD_setbylayer__note_xzh_yyn_wqb"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> The Plotstyle option is available for STB drawings only. See the CONVERTCTB and CONVERTPSTYLES command.</div>
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