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Changing part colors in an assembly

Changing part colors in an assembly

Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
Maybe it's one of the settings in my computer but for some reason I cannot change the colors of parts within an assembly.  If i really try, I can change face colors, but that's not what I'm looking to do.  I can also assign materials and it changes the colors but I'm not trying to do that either.

On a side note, SolidWorks forum is the #1 hot forum in Eng-Tips.  Minus well call it SW-Tips.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Hi, uGlay:

Select the part in FM tree. Right click it and choose "Appearance" and then "Color...".  There you have it.

Alex
 

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Do you have RealView enabled?  Have you tried it with RV turned off?

"On a side note, SolidWorks forum is the #1 hot forum in Eng-Tips."  Is that good or bad?!?

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
It's good of course!  Let me see what the RV settings are.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
ctopher: I used to click on the part and then I would click on the colors buttons in the standard toolbar.  But the color button is always grayed out now for some reason.  Don't know if it is an 08 thing or I did something wrong to my computer.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

If this forum is hot, it sort of begs the question: Is the software that bad?  Or is it so good that we have time to hang out on eng-tips?

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Hi, uGlay:

My previous comment was not clear.  You should select the part in FM (Feature manager) tree in your assembly. Right click it and choose "Appearance" and then "Color...".  There you have it.

If you select a face, you will change color of that face.  If you select the part, you will change color of all faces of the part.

Alex
 

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
grayclamps: the appearance button is a gold sphere-shaped thing on my computer.  SW irking me again.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Hi, uGlay:

Can't you select the part in FM (Feature manager) tree in your assembly. Right click it and choose "Appearance" and then "Color..."?

Alex

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

That option is only available with RV off.  With RV on you get the globe and you must use RV Appearances.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

You can only access the Colour and Texture icons if Real View is disabled. With Real View enabled, only the globe icon is available.

cheers

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

"Real View" option has nothing to do with appearance color of a part in an assembly.

You can access appearance color of a part in an assembly any time you want.

Alex

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
Ok how do I disable RV.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Alex, what version of SW are you using?

uGlay, go to View/Display/ and click RV off.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

You enable or disenble RV by pushing the golden globe icon.

Are you aware that there are two sets of colors for any parts?  Native color of faces of a part and appearance color of the part in an assembly.  They are different.

Alex

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

Hi, Dan:

I am kind of behind.  I still use SW2007.  I think uGlay is talking about colors of parts in assemblies not colors of the parts themselves.

Alex

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
I just checked and RealView has been off the entire time.

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

RV has become more ingrained in '08.  There are many options that have changed since '07.  In '08 RV Appearances have gobbles up the old PhotoWorks materials and access to the options that you are familiar with are not available with RV enabled.  Check out the What's New document on SW's website.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
sheesh no wonder I was going nuts reading the replies.

I just added my computer information to my signature, hopefully it will prevent this from happening again.

SW2008 Office Pro SP3.1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2.19GHz, 2.00GB RAM lulz

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

This is kinda in the vein (vain) of rgrayclamps statement, when you change the color of a part (subassembly) in the context of a higher level assembly, it doesn't actually update the part's color, it simply assigns a new color to the part in the context of the assembly.  Kinda like shooting a coat of paint on the part when it gets to the assembly level.  I tend to prefer to NEVER change the color in the context of an assembly, I ALWAYS go back to the part level to change a color.  But then, I don't really do any stuff that needs to look pretty.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional

RE: Changing part colors in an assembly

(OP)
Nice link, downloading video now.

SW2008 Office Pro SP3.1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2.19GHz, 2.00GB RAM lulz

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