Confounding Color Confusion 1

[PizzaEatingestSOA]

I have a part in SW 2005 that I accidently assigned a color, white, to both the part and a sweep in the part. The part by itself is white, but when I put it in an assembly it's grey.

I've think the confusion is because I've assigned the color twice and have been trying to unnassign the color to the sweep or the part. I am allowed to do neither.

If I change the color it still comes out grey in the assembly.

Has anyone seen this? Is there a solution?

PESOA

 

[TateJ]

You can color a part from within the part - or in the context of an assembly. Also - while in the part - you can color a feature, a face, or a body. It gets real confusing & I'm not sure which option takes precedence. You'll just have to sort thru all the options & deduce what you "accidently" did.

Have fun...

Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Lava Lamp​

 

[SBaugh]

Why don't you remove the colors from the Feature and the Part. Place the part in the assembly and change the color at the assembly level?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[PizzaEatingestSOA]

Well, I've tried to remove the color from the feature from and the part. Now I can't select remove but the there is still a color attached to the part and the sweep.

I've tried assigning the color in the assembly afterwards and it still doesn't work.

 

[smcadman]

Go to Lenny's site and download "ModelProperties". It will remove feature colors, as well as make changing colors a little easier. If you assign a color to a part in an assembly, it will either be assigned at the part or assembly level. ModelProperties avoids the confusion.

http://webpages.charter.net/mkikstra/SolidWorks.html

Flores
SW 2005 SP 4.

 

[TateJ]

When you RIGHT-CLICK on the particular face of your part... pay attention to exactly which ICON is active on the left side of the dialog box. It will either be face, feature, or body. Have another look... it slapped me a few times too, before I realized what was happening.

Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Lava Lamp​

 

[felix7502]

Have you checked your Ambient lighting in the assy? Sometimes that affects the way the color looks.
Sylvia

 

[HikinMike]

I tried the download on Lenny's site and I'm having a hard time getting it to run in SW2006. Any ideas?

Mike
Engineering Technician
Fisher Research Laboratory

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

HikinMike ... Have you tried the Appearnce Callouts in SW06?

Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of faq559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions faq559-1091

 

[HikinMike]

Thanks CBL, I just tried it out. I was hoping for an easier way to return the features and faces to one color rather than selecting each one. Of course the time I've spent on this trying to find an easy eay, I could have selected each face by now! That's how you learn...

Mike
Engineering Technician
Fisher Research Laboratory

 

[smcadman]

I tried the download on Lenny's site and I'm having a hard time getting it to run in SW2006. Any ideas?

I just tried "Model Properties" in SW 2006 SP0.0, and I didn't have any problems with it. In an assembly file, pick the part in the assembly tree. In the part file, you don't have to pick anything, just run it. Make sure you hit the "Remove Feature Colors" button.

see

http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/7106/modelproperties3vg.jpg

Flores
SW 2005 SP 4.

 

[HikinMike]

In the part file, you don't have to pick anything, just run it. Make sure you hit the "Remove Feature Colors" button.

I've been doing that and I kept getting a Run-Time error '91' "Object variable or With block variable not set" message.

I just tried it again and it works. Go figure? Thanks everybody for your help!

Mike
Engineering Technician
Fisher Research Laboratory

 

[PizzaEatingestSOA]

I know it's been a long time since I initiated this thread but I finally got time to download the macro from Lenny's Site. It worked great first time.

PESOA