Creo 2 colors

[dgallup]

I've finally installed Creo2 M050 to test, we've been using WF4 up till now. The default colors were virtually unusable, yellow text on a white background made drawings illegible. So I down loaded some alternate syscol.scl files to try out. Definitely some improvements but I think something weird is going on. Maybe it's my computer, I hope someone can shed some light.

I'm attaching a screen shot, it shows a drawing view note, it is blue. However, when I go to modify the text style is says it is yellow and assigned to the letter color which is also yellow. I can change it to color highlight (red) and it turns red or to color sheetmetal (green) and it turns green. Change it back to letter (yellow) and it turns blue.

Here are my workstation specs, it's not the latest but it should run Creo 2.

HP Z800
Windows 7 professional SP1
Intel Xeon E5630
6 GB ram
64 bit
Quadro FX3800

Any idea what's going on?


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[jvian]

I doubt it is your hardware. We have been using Creo 1.0 then 2.0 for a while and the colors have been a little buggy for us as well. I had problems with color settings not being retained after modification in the main options page. It would show temporarily then always revert back due to some operation (that I cant figure out) but the problem was solve by always exporting to the default syscol every time I changed something. A pain really but it did end up fixing many of our problems. I'm sure this isn't helping but I thought I'd share it anyway.

In your screenshot above is your letter color from the available options the same as it is on the main options color page? This was what would happen to us as I described above and exporting after every change did fix it for us. I would change the letter color to dark blue then close and reopen and the color had reverted back to yellow but after changing the color to dark blue and exporting, the color would retain. I must admit though now that my color file is the way that I want I don't find myself modifying text styles the way you are trying to.

Hope that helps, sorry if it doesn't,

- J -

 

[dgallup]

The system color for letter is the same yellow as the above upload.

What do you mean by "exporting"?

I have not been saving anything as I'm just testing at this point in time. But even if I create a new drawing the colors do not match up.

I installed a new graphics driver, made no difference.

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[jvian]

Under File >> Options >> System Colors, there is an export button at the bottom of the colors tab which exports the color settings to the specified file. I had problems with various color settings until I started exporting all changes. Like I said this was a pain as I had to keep notes on what I changed from in case I desired to go back. I also had issues with names other than syscol.scl but that is going back to Creo 1.0 and I have not retried that again so that may no longer be an issue. But again the bug fix for us was to make any changes to the color scheme, export to the syscol.scl file and save the config.pro all before doing anything else. Also make sure the syscol.scl is being properly referenced by your config.pro as well.

Hope that helps,

- J -

 

[dgallup]

Creo2 is certainly reading the syscol.scl files as I have tried about half a dozen different ones people have sent me. However, I will try editing and "exporting" a file to see if that helps.

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