Change surface color of multi-body solid part

[Thosnow]

Hello All,

I am able to change PartBody color with a VBA code but having difficulty to change the surface color of multi-body solid part, which has multiple bodies joined together.
When I want to change the "multi-body-PartBody"s color to white, the visible color of all surfaces did not change at all, unless you use the mouse and go to property of each surface on the body and change its color from there manually.

Any suggestions, code syntax, or CATIA command is much appreciated.

Thank you in advance

Quin

 

[ferdo]

Can you post an image of what you want? Before and after your manually action?

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Fernando

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[itsmyjob]

use the graphic properties wizard to understand where the color comes from.

here the face is white even if all bodies and feature above have other color.

Eric N.
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[Thosnow]

So surface color and fill color are different? Is it right

Property visProperties.SetRealColor will change surface color or fill color?
As I understand visProperties.SetRealColor only changes surface color...is it right?

Quin

 

[itsmyjob]

it change the color of the selection

Eric N.
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[Thosnow]

I agree with itsmyjob...but i used visProperties.SetRealColor to change partbody (in the selection) and visible/surface color did not change. See image below.

The above part has multiple surfaces (complex part but single body) with blue color and i tried to change to white with visProperties.SetRealColor 0, 0, 0, 1 but the color did not change to white at all.
However, if I use the same visProperties.SetRealColor 0, 0, 0, 1 to change surfaces on a simpler part then color changes as wanted.

Any idea?

Quin

 

[itsmyjob]

use the property wizard to find out where the color comes from

priority is given to face, then shape, then body.

So if all faces are blue, you can change shape or body to white you will still see the solid blue.

Eric N.
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[Thosnow]

After running the macro, I still see "blue" color under "Fill" section in the wizard. Does it mean partbody color?

Quin