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Make a Layer Black and White

Learn how to switch your sheet view from colored to black & white and vice versa if supported by the uploaded sheet file.

Anna-Azize Adami avatar
Written by Anna-Azize Adami
Updated yesterday

Depending on the source of your layer, different colors may be used to mark different properties of a layer. In the Sphere XG Viewer, you can activate and deactivate black-and-white mode of a colored layer, see figure below.

  1. Click the icon in the view toolbar on the lower left side to open the 2D view.

  2. Click the icon in the toolbar to open the Layers form.

  3. Make sure that the layer you want to manipulate is visible, i.e. the icon is displayed behind the layer.

  4. Click icon in the toolbar on the right side of the screen.

Black & white sheets in the FARO Sphere XG Viewer - Before clicking the Make Black and White icon

Black & white sheets in the FARO Sphere XG Viewer - After clicking the Make Black and White icon

This feature has no effect on already black and white sheets.

Learn more about sheets and layers in the Sphere XG User Manual.

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