Using standard parts colors/materials
Using standard parts colors/materials
(OP)
Is there a central colors/materials library for attaching to Solid-Edge parts or must I redefine the same color in each assembly I want to use a non-standard color in?
For instance- AutoCAD (std) uses a central library. Once you've designed a material/color and added it to the central library, its available for all parts in all designs. Thanks.
For instance- AutoCAD (std) uses a central library. Once you've designed a material/color and added it to the central library, its available for all parts in all designs. Thanks.





RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
Jason West
CAD Manager
Diamond Automation
RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
Jason West
CAD Manager
Diamond Automation
RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
To copy colors to an existing assembly file, open the existing assembly, then choose format -> style
and select "faces style" from the style type box.
Press the "organizer button", here you can browse for an assembly file that already has the colors defined that you want. and copy them into the open file.
RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
Thanks. That's exactly the reply I needed. I've only been usin S-E for just at 1 month now, and you'd be surprised how much even the senior users here don't know. These are sharp guys. Clearly the answers to such questions are less intuitive than they ought to be. Yor post helped. I've recently givenup on the S-E Help index. There's lots of "Here's what we can do!" and little practical how-to. Any good 3rd party books you'd recommend?
Thanks-
C.F.
RE: Using standard parts colors/materials
Glad I could be of help, as far as I know theres only 1 3rd party book that I know of, but I don't know if it's any good. The best advice I can give you for an information resource is to go to the News groups that are hosted by EDS. They are private newsgroups available to those with valid maintinance accounts. You'll need to get a "webkey" to access them, you can also get access to the online version of the "mechanical quarterly" which has some excellent information.