Coloring in Assembly mode

[jballenger]

I just moved from SW 2003 to SW 2004. In SW 2004, when I am in assembly mode and choose "edit part" I lose all of the coloring information from the part. I poked around and found "Use specified colors when editing parts in assemblies" under system options and colors but the part color is overridden regardless of whether this box is checked or not.

Does anyone know how to get the part colors to stay while working while editing the part in assembly mode? This is annoying because I am not able to recognize some features without color distinction and wireframe/hidden lines is useless when used with many features.

 

[MrPickles]

In my Options - Colors - Use specified Colors when editing parts in assemblies is NOT checked, the color the part is when not being edited, is the SAME color as when it is in an "Edit Part" state.

When this option IS checked, then the edit color is whatever the "Assembly, Edit Color" in "System Colors" is set too (I think the default is hot pink).

When you have a color of a part in an assembly, and you OPEN the part to edit it, and it changes colors, then you have overridden the parts color in the assembly.

Does any of this shed light on your issue?


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Mr. Pickles

 

[SBaugh]

IMO you should remove all colors of all the parts in your assembly. Once you remove the colors the part color should return. An assembly part color overrides the part color. RMB the part and go to Component properties, then click on Color, then on remove color.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[jballenger]

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately I have done all of the above. Being a long-time solidworks user I am aware that assembly colors override part colors. I am also aware that having said check box checked will override the part colors with the default hot pink. I have also removed all coloring data from both assemblies and parts and started from scratch (at the part level) with no luck.

I have SW2003 files that worked previously with the correct coloring data but do not work in SW2004. I even tried uninstalling SW2004 to put SW2003 back on but I cannot open the newly saved SW2004 files due to a "future version" error with SW2003 (meaning the files are not backwards compatible).

 

[JNR]

I think my interpretation of your original question is different from everyone else's. Disregarding the obvious stuff about overriding part colors in assemblies. As far as I recall, if you "Open" a part in the assembly, you get it in all its original glory (and no access to in context stuff with the assembly, obviously). When you "Edit" a part in an assembly it is in context (though you would only create in context features if you reference something outside the part itself). In this mode it has always come up in one solid color depending on the SW rev. (And I have to say that the programmers seem to have and awful sense of color - goodness know what they dress like.... maybe the Bravo people could send their Fab 5 over to chat with them ;-)

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