Body/face colour change within an assembly

[RhysMog]

Hi,
I have an assembly in which all the parts are required to have the correct colour and appear as the would in real life. I'm using Edit Object Display > Face Filter > Change colour to modify the face colour to whatever each part requires, but I wish to keep all of the body colours in 'Light Hard Pink'. This has worked perfectly for every part in the assembly, except for one. The part consists of a single cylinder with no other features.
NX tells me that the body colour is pink and the face colour is grey, as I intended, but the part appears with pink faces in the assembly, and I can't get it to change. Can anyone offer any help?

Many thanks
Rhys

 

[JohnRBaker]

Are you applying these colors while in the Assembly or when the actual part file is being displayed? If you're doing it the part file, but the part does not look correct when seen in the Assembly then you've somehow applied a color at the Assembly level which is overriding the color(s) of the actual part file.

So try this...

While in the Assembly select the Cylinder component that you're having problems with, press MB3, select 'Properties' and in the 'General' tab check to see if the 'Specific Component Color' option is toggled ON. If so, toggle it OFF and hit OK. The Component should now revert back to the actual color(s) of the part file.

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[RhysMog]

Hi John,
Thanks for the reply. I had already toggled specific component colour off, but I realised I had been modifying the colour with the part set as Work Part, rather than Displayed Part. Finally got it to work - don't know why I didn't spot that sooner.

Thanks
Rhys

 

[scope63]

hi John

is there a place to set this option in the Customer Defaults, any assembly part(s) that i bring in reverts back to a default colour in the preferences tab. i'm using NX8.

Scott Copeland

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you will note, in my response I said "...check to see if the 'Specific Component Color' option is toggled ON." This setting is detecting whether a color was assigned to this part at the Assembly level or not, which is why I said "if". In other words, the default is always OFF unless the color was changed at the Assembly level. What this also means that there is NO way to force it to be OFF since this is really a way to EDIT the component, by removing a color change added at the Assembly level. In other words, you can't set a Customer Default that will somehow force the system to automatically delete the color edits made on the Components of an Assembly. That must to be done by the user manually.

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[scope63]

Hi John

sorry i guess what i was getting at is when i import a component into my work part, that component will change its colour to what is set in the preferences tab. i was hoping that there was some way for the component to retain its colours upon import. this is what i'm having trouble to find.

Scott Copeland

 

[JohnRBaker]

The issue is not that the component is a different color in an Assembly, just that the Assembly is using a different CDF (Color Defition File) than was used for the part file. Parts don't actually KNOW what 'color' they are, just what color 'number' has been assigned, 1 thru 216. If a Component is assigned the color associated with #5 and in the Component part file the CDF says that #5 is Blue it will look Blue, but if in the Assembly file (CDF's are loaded INTO and stays with the part file until replaced) its CDF says that color #5 is Orange, then when looking at the Assembly the Component will look Orange yet when you make the Component the displayed part, it will look Blue. If the part files already exist, the Component and the Assembly, then changing the Customer Defaults will have NO effect since when a part is created new it inherits the current DEFUALT CDF and it will stay that way no matter what changes might be made as to which CDF is set to be the default in the future. If you want to replace the CDF in a part file, you will need to do that by going to...

Preferences -> Color Palette...

...and in the Options section of the dialog you will need to Open a new Color Defintion File or switch to whatever is the current default and then save the part file.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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