sketch colors don't show in a draft view

[EricatNordic]

I have a draft view that I want to show a sketch from the part in.

In the part the sketch curves are all colored white. They are attached to a part face that is black using the part painter

In the draft file I turned the sketch on in the view properties and made the view shaded trying to show the white lettering on the black background and the sketch displays in black, which is not visible on the face of the part.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

nothing ;-) usually the sketch will be shown with 'Visible Edge Style'
set to 'Visible' and the color is black.

So just define a new style based on 'Visible' name it for example 'Sketch'
and set the color to the one desired.

How to: Format --> Style -- Line - Select it and --> NEW


Now under 'Display' select the sketch and set the pulldown to the newly
defined Style.

BTW: to have this style parmanent define it in your draft template

dy

 

[KENAT]

BTW you'll probably want to reduce the line width as well as change the colour.

Otherwise if the text is relatively small it will be unclea.

 

[EricatNordic]

Thanks, that was part of my problem. The other part was that Sketch curves are considered edges (news to me.) so they don't hightlight with the "shaded" view setting. I had to change to "shaded with visible edges" and they showed up.

That ate up a lot of time, but at least I know something new now.

I need to use the styles more, they ar every handy for making global changes quickly