Un-set object display colors
Un-set object display colors
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You can set object display parameters such as color, translucency, and partial shading at the component level and at the assembly level. Once set at the assembly level, is there a way to un-set and revert to the component level parameters?
I have a set of four components that have faces colored in the component, in the assembly I set one instance as red for reference. Now I need to unset that and color a different instance instead.
I have a set of four components that have faces colored in the component, in the assembly I set one instance as red for reference. Now I need to unset that and color a different instance instead.





RE: Un-set object display colors
Now if you've ONLY edited the display of one or more faces of the Component in the context of the Assembly and you go to the Properties page you will notice that these items are NOT active and available for you to reset. What you have to do then, and here's the obscure part, is that you will need to first edit, in the context of the assembly, the color (or whatever) of the entire component to anything, it doesn't really matter. You see, this item on the Properties page ONLY detects IF the color of the Component itself has been edited, not any of the faces, so just do this temporary 'global' edit and then return to the Properties page where you will now see the item(s) set and you can now toggle them OFF and hit OK and your component will return to it original unedited state, reseting both the edited component color and any edted faces.
Anyway, I hope that was clear.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: Un-set object display colors
RE: Un-set object display colors
Thanks for the info, John. I learned something new today.
RE: Un-set object display colors
Go to File -> Utilities -> Part Cleanup... and at the bottom of the dialog there is item there titled 'Component Display' with 3 options:
'No Action' the default and obvious item.
'Remove Redundant Changes' which covers the situation where you ONLY wish to get rid of situations where say you started out creating a Red part and then you added it to an assembly and then edited it in the assembly to be Blue. And then later on you liked the Blue so much that you went back to the original model and edited it to be Blue. Now the reality is that editing the appearance of components in an assembly, does add extra data to the assembly and so if you've got a lot of 'redundant' colors, it is best to get rid of them, so this option will cleanup those situations, but leave all the edits that are not redundant alone.
'Remove All Changes' which is again pretty obvious what that does.
But be warned as that will look at every part open in your session that is part of an assembly (don't worry though, we will give you a big and scary looking warning message with one last chance to bail-out in case you don't really want to take an action as radical and global at that).
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/