Random Appearance Changes when upgrading

[overkill4]

Hi All,

I recently built a new computer and opened up one of my assemblies. I found that solidworks had automatically updated a few of the materials to the new default for my installation. Is there any way to set it up so that Solidworks doesn't do that? I would rather it just showed an error and allow me to fix it.

Thanks

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[mjcole]

SolidWorks has drastically changed how colors are applied and used in SolidWorks and has been aggravating for many people. I believe in 2010 SolidWorks asks you a question about creating display states for old colors or photoworks colors settings. If you still have 2009 installed look for the colors file *.sldclr I'd recommend using a non default install directory for these and other File Locations settings files to avoid issues like this.

C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\lang\english\colorswatches

Another thing to try would be to use the Convert Files option in SolidWorks Task Scheduler to do the update and see if that makes a difference.

Michael