Geometry Colour

[Lee.]

Hi All.

 

When I'm creating geometry I use all kinds of whacky colours so that I can hide things at certain times etc.

 

But when I try to create edge curves from a solid, the colour is almost never what I asked for it to be. Rather frustrating, because when I want to keep it on the screen I have to find out it's colour by using select instead of just punching in the exact colour number.

 

Anyone else have this problem?

 

Thanks, Lee

[billystein]

no

[Hardmill]

Be sure you don't have anything active in your

EA Manager.

 

 

PEACE

[Lee.]

Nothing active in EA Manager.

 

Any ideas?

[Bunny McRabbit]

Drop your file and your cfg file on ftp

 

[ 10-31-2004, 01:38 AM: Message edited by: Bunny McRabbit ]

[Lee.]

They are in the mc9 folder, in a folder called wrong colours.

 

I used colour 52 on a solid of colour 12 to create an edge curve and it created it in colour 94?????

 

Weird hey.

[Fig sign]

I want to see your cfg file ->this is cfg specific thing

[Lee.]

Iskander the cfg file is on the ftp.

 

Check my previous post please.

 

Thanks.

[Thad]

Did you change the color of the solid before creating the edge curves? I've noticed that even if I change the color of the solid, and then create surfaces from the solid, the surface color always ends up the same as the original solid, regardless of what geometry color is current. Does this sound like what's happening? It's like the color is associated to the solid regardless of other color settings.

 

Thad

[Bunny McRabbit]

I bet you imported your solid from Solidworks or other Cam .

If so ,the solid discription has or can have a different color settings for faces and edges

It can have 50 edges yellow and 50 green and faces of different colors

Mc shows you one color but when it convert your solid to surfaces or edges it retrieves original color description and use it

I saw your original colors and I`ve got what you got .

Consider this not as a bug but feature ,that is very useful for me sometimes ,like when I get parasolid solid with changes ,colored in different color .

Create surfaces on the different layer on your model and you will see this too

 

Teh Iskander`s voice

[Lee.]

I did what you said and behold, two different colours. No matter what I want them to be, they turn out the same two colours. 94 and 12. I do wish there was a way to resolve this though, without drawing the whole thing brand new in MC.