Component Color Problems

[overkill04]

Hey all,

I'm having some headaches with my component colors, and I'm not sure if it's a graphics issue or what.

Basically I'm changing component colors in an assembly and even though the components color is changing it's still rendering in the components default color.

I don't have any materials attached so what is going on?

Thanks

 

[overkill04]

One more note.


Is there some master color control for a component, that can override changes made to a body or face? I mean if I want my flange to be blue, shouldn't that be easy to do?

 

[polykracker]

Under PhotoWorks/Options/SystemOptions in the "Material Display" box is "Display Solidworks Colors in PhotoWorks" checked? Does that solve the problem?

 

[overkill04]

Right now I have "Use Solidworks materials" and "Use Solidworks physical materials" checked.

These options give the part properties priority correct?

 

[overkill04]

Basically my issue right now is that I have a component and I want to undo all the color changes at lower levels in the part.

I want to be able to click on the part name at the top of the feature tree and change the entire components color there.

 

[smcadman]

Are you talking about rendering photographic quality images using Photoworks, or rendering simply as the color you see the part in SW? If you simply want to change the color or remove colors of faces and features of a part (in plain SW), then use "Modelproperties" from Lenny's website.

ModelProperties

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[polykracker]

This is back to your original question. I don't believe that you can have Photoworks materials and non-photoworks materials render together. That being said the "Display Solidworks Colors in PhotoWorks" box must be checked, and the ones that you have checked should be unchecked. What you see on the screen is what should render then. The following is from SW's help for the Photoworks options.

Display SolidWorks Colors in PhotoWorks. Select to use the SolidWorks material properties when you render the model. For example, if you set a face to red using the SolidWorks Face Properties dialog box, then the face renders red in PhotoWorks. Clear this option to use PhotoWorks materials only.

As another option you could do the following: Turn on the animation addin. Turn on screen capture (save as jpeg and set the renderer to Solidworks screen) and just capture what you see.

 

[overkill04]

Thanks for all the help!

I found that on a couple of faces I'd actually changed the color by going to properties then color as opposed to appearance then color.

Once I had all the colors removed the part did what I wanted. I just wish there was an easier way to remove colors from features/faces/bodies as opposed to individually tracking them down and removing them.

 

[smcadman]

I just wish there was an easier way to remove colors from features/faces/bodies as opposed to individually tracking them down and removing them.

overkill04, did you read or try any of the above advice? The macro I suggested is a 1-click solution for removing colors from features/faces/bodies.

Model Properties

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I want to be able to click on the part name at the top of the feature tree and change the entire components color there.

You can do this with SW2007 (at the part level) using the Remove All Colors option in the Color & Optics manager.

 

[ctopher]

Also, some color macros here:

http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)

 

[overkill04]

smcadman I tried that macro and it always crashed right after opening the first object affect.

I'm just reading the txt file to see if there's some detail I'm missing