Feature-Color, No longer an option??

[Bouke]

It maybe that my memory is placing tricks upon me but I have the following problem. A collegue of mine is trying to change the color of a feature in a simple part. And SW doesn't respond. He doesn't want to change color of all the faces one by one so it really is kinda annoying. I think this used to be possible. We both use SW2005 SP3.0

Are we the only one or can you reproduce the problem??

Kind regards,

Bouke Brouwers
P4 2,8 2Gb RAM, Quadro FX 500
SW2005 SP3.0

 

[smcadman]

ctrl + pick the different features you need colored, Features > Appearance > Color and pick color.

Flores

 

[Bouke]

That's exactly what I am doing. But as I said, sw doesn;t respond, the feature stays the same color. Is this a SW-bug?

Bouke Brouwers
P4 2,8 2Gb RAM, Quadro FX 500
SW2005 SP3.0

 

[ctopher]

also, try right-click the feature in the tree to change color. If still doesn't work, check tools/options/color and check all color settings.

Chris
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[Bouke]

I tried. I am able to change the colors of solid-bodies and faces. I cant find any option to turn off or on the feature colors.

Bouke Brouwers
P4 2,8 2Gb RAM, Quadro FX 500
SW2005 SP3.0

 

[ctopher]

You have two options "bodies" or "features". Select "feature".

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[brengine]

Open any assemblies that contain this part, select the part (multi-body, surfaces, features etc... one at a time if you have to). Then Edit color and see if the Remove Color button is enabled. If so, then click it. Repeat for each assemly that this part is a component in. Then do the same in the part file until you're satisfied that the color is now updating correctly within the part file.

As I said above, you may have to pick the multi-bodies, surfaces, features etc... one at a time and verify that there is no color assigned to it within that respective assembly or within the part.

In the future, do no assign color to parts from within an assembly file. And while in the part file, only apply a color to the entire part (not features, faces, etc...)

Ken

 

[smcadman]

You might want to "clean" the part/assembly by using "Model Properties" from Lenny's website. It will remove feature colors that may have been added or colors added in the assembly level which can be a pain to remove at the part level. After running it, you should be able to change the feature colors as I stated above.

http://webpages.charter.net/mkikstra/SWX-macros.html

Flores

 

[Bouke]

The part is clean. In fact, I made a new part for my tests so there surely wasn't a color on it. Next to that, it can be handy sometimes to change the color of a feature in a part. Like when you make pictures for reports or to stress a certain feature has changed or as a reminder to take a second look to the feature.

I never change color in assemblies, only in the part itself and in parts I only color solid-bodies. So I dont ever have trouble with "lost" colors.

But still my problem exist, maybe its a document property?

Bouke Brouwers
P4 2,8 2Gb RAM, Quadro FX 500
SW2005 SP3.0

 

[SBaugh]

The problem sounds like it's more of a core install issue. Picking a feature, or a body and even a face are all ways of changing the colors. However there is a hireachy of this procedure.

Try doing a clean uninstall and reinstall of the system

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[SBaugh]

Here is the list of the way it works:

Hierarchy of color changing in a part:

Face
Feature
Part

Face will take persidence over all that are below it and on down the list.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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