Color and Appearance

[Bob_W]

I don't use colors in my parts much beyond the basic features, so I do not have a lot of experience in this area.


In the current assembly I wanted to havecomponentswith different colors so I changed them in the assembly mode. Later I needed one of theparts color changed so the part is one color andall surfaces are another (this will be the visible color). This allows for future cuts (engraving) to show up as the original part color. This can not be done at the assembly level so I did it in the part model. Now the color changes do not propagate up to the assembly.


How do I cancel the assmbly level color assignments? And how do I get colors to propagate up or down in assemblies?


I am using WF2 build 280, haven't tried it in WF4 yet


Bob

 

[csusie]

Colors only propogate up through the assemblies. A parts
color can be overridden in the assembly by assigning a part
a different color in the assembly.

In your case you need to go into color and appearance in
the assembly and "clear" the part's color that has been
assigned at the assembly level.

 

[Bob_W]

I cleared the color at the assembly level and all component parts changed to 'default white'. I then opened one of the parts and changed the color which displayed properly. Going back to the assembly the color was not changed and had not propagated from the part.I tried to regenand repaint and it made no difference. Is there a config.pro or update I am supposed to use to get this to work?


Thanks


Bob

 

[kdem]

I think you need to open the assembly, select component in the drop down list, select the part, and clear the color.Fromwhat you are describing itappears you may notbe clearing the color at the right level.

 

[Bob_W]

I did find to get the Clear to work properly I had to select All Objects not the Parts or Components. Once I did that, it seem to remove the assembly colors and allow me to redo all the component colors. I just finished up doing that 15 minutes ago. Not sure why selecting clear with components selected doesn't work. I also tried to change the all of the part surfaces using the All Surfaces option and that didn't work either. But when I chose surfaces and then selected all of them with Seed and Boundary it works. It sure seemd like a PITA.


Thanks for the comments and have a good weekend.


Bob