Pantone Color in Pro/Engineer

[slashct]

I was given a Pantone color from our marketing group does anyone know if there is a way to convert that color into Pro/Engineer so I can shade my model close to it?

 

[charleskim]

Try the website below. They have Pantone listing with RGB.


http://www.sandaleo.com/pantone.asp


Charles

 

[slashct]

Thanks that got me there!

 

[2ms1]

In the future you should be able to just ask them to give you the RGB instead -- the Pantone color keys they presumably have either in digital (swatch library in Adobe Illustrator or something) or paper (the PantoneFormula Guide)form, show both the Pantone code anditsRGB value.

 

[AHA-D]

Still watch out with what you're doing. First of all you need a color calibrated monitor if you expect to get the right view on things. Then you need a printer that has the right color profile so that it prints what you see.


And beware of RGB-values. I've had values for RAL-colors that were nowhere near the real color. Ended up with trial and error holding samples in front of the screen and working towards the best result. You have to apply the color to an object to get the effect of color change through shading.


Alex

 

[sanjeevkar1]

thanks Charles.





that site is damn good

 

[andysuth]

It's also probably going to close in a few months if you look at the standard IP letter Pantone have sent to other sites that used to offer the service.


http://www.warpgear.com/pantone/


That doesn't account for anyone who did a "save as" to retain the info on the website, presumably they need to post the letter to everyone too.


Failing that, use Adobe Photoshop, they do Pantone colour matching, and can output as a rough RGB code.


Also be aware there are different Pantones for different colours depending on production process they use to make the item. I remember Pantone 300 is NHS blue (UK health service) but I had to specify Pantone 300C (forgot the other options, but "U" is one!)





Good luck with that.





-AS






Edited by: andysuth

 

[AHA-D]

C in Pantone stands for coated (paper) as this is originally a printshop standard.


Alex

 

[foolmankh]

Try the website below. They have Pantone listing with RGB.


http://www.sandaleo.com/pantone.asp


Charles
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[Isair]

I have come across some website where I have downloaded patone colors as ProE appearance map.
Where that site was I forget, but fortunately I downloaded files.

Here they are:


2007-08-30_073119_colors.rar

 

[ankarl]

Thanks Isair

I've been looking for a conversion that has Pantone names as well like "Cool Grey 7"


Its all in there!

 

[mediumsliced]

Thanks!

 

[andysuth]

I always thought "Cool Grey 7" etc. where magic marker names, rather than true Pantone colours?





-AS

 

[magneplanar]

try this:

http://stdg.us/Tutorials.htm

look for the pantone color appearance files...

cheers,

M

 

[andysuth]

I've been looking for the Config.pro file command for the path these should be stored in.





I've tried these lines, but not worked, any ideas?



pro_material_dir C:\ProEPath\material\
pro_colormap_path C:\ProEPath\colours\


Cheers,





-AS

 

[slashct]

I have found that on some systems you need to match the exact path with how it is spelled out capital wise etc. So the best thing you can do is make them all lower case or upper, and it should work.

 

[andysuth]

I actually copied and pasted from the full path on the windows directory, and seems not to have worked.





It does have some capital and lower case letters, but I can't see it as a problem if it is case sensitive, I've got the right cases.





-AS

 

[Isair]

pro_colormap_path C:\ProEPath\colours\ works only with *.map

If you want ProE to read *.dmt files, put them in ProE installed directory, graphic-library > appearances, ie:
C:\PTC\proeWildfire 3.0\graphic-library\appearances
rename your main color.dmt file to appearance.dmt, and replace existing one.

Then next time when ProE starts, it will read all colors from appearance.dmt

Note: If you have installed Graphic library, then you must put appearance.dmt in graphic library installed directory ie:

C:\PTC\graphiclib\graphic-library\appearances

Hope it helps