Color section view 2

[altnickee]

Hi ,

I have made a section view of a part, and I want to color the face of the section to show the section-cut more clearly.
How to do this?



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[ctopher]

Right-click on the surface, change color.

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[MadMango]

The Section View is only a "display" with features that can not be edited. In order to do what you desire, you will have to create a Cut-extrude feature in your assembly. After this, you can select faces and change to colors of the cut components.

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[altnickee]

ctopher/MadMango


Right-click on the surface, change color doesn’t work, so I made a Cut-extrude feature of my assembly. After this I tried to change to colors of the cut components, no problem changing the color of the parts in the assembly, but what I want to do,is to color the face that is left after the section- cut, not the complete part.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

RMB on the surface, select Face > Appearance > Color doesn't work for you?

 

[MadMango]

...or select the new Cut feature in the assembly tree and change the color properties for that.

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[altnickee]

CorBlimeyLimey,

Your tip did the job!!!

thanks.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Thank you for the "thanks" ... but my post wasn't a tip. Both Ctopher and MadMango had suggested the correct method to do what you needed. My post was just questioning whether you had tried their suggestion correctly.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

... and MadMango's second post is actually the simplest way to set the face colour.

 

[MadMango]

CBL, thanks for the chivalry. I remember submitting a enhancement request back in SW01 and SW05 to make the cut-face colors able to change in a Section View. It must be fairly low on priorities. Has nothing changed with SW08?

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[ctopher]

Thanks CBL!


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