Color Dialog

[Mjölnir]

In an effort to create a sane default configuration in Mastercam 10, I'd like to remap the colors in the dialog box as they used to be prior to version 8. That is, each color and its various shades were organized in columns instead of scattered around like they are by default now.

 

For version 8 (which also worked in version 9, doesn't in version 10), there is a chook named v7colors.dll I got from, I'm pretty sure, our MC reseller, that remaped the colors in the default config file. I tried copying that color remaping info from mcam9.cfg to mcamx.config (required some manual syntax editing and renumbering), and got close, but not enough for joy. e.g. Color 0 and 2 are reversed, 0 is lt green, 2 is black, 16 is yellow which should be 14, etc. The colors are, for the most part, organized in columns though.

 

I could spend a few hours manually tweaking it to get it they way it should be (so as not to have to re-memorize all the color numbers) but am hoping somebody has already written or has plans to write another chook that works with v10 instead.

 

If this has already been done, nevermind replying, and please post a link. Thanks. :-)

[Guest]

Bob,

 

If you do a search on this on I think you'll find that quite recently they decided that would be added back in with MR1

 

HTH

 

Linky

[Mjölnir]

Cool. I don't need to waste any more time on this for the time being. Thanks John.

[Clay Walnum from CNC Software]

Yes, V7colors for X will be in MR1.

 

--Clay

[MIKE_B]

A revisit here.

I was playing around with the V7 colors chook but now I want to go back to X colors. Anyone no how I can do this. I came in this morning and the V7 stuck with my default config.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Open up the Colors dialog and click on the 'Customize' tab. See the button on the right that looks like a curved arrow over a horizontal line (the tooltip says "reload system default colors)? That's the one!

[MIKE_B]

Thanks Pete

[Thad]

Mike,

 

You'll have to save your config file after making the change back....or it won't change back.

 

Thad

[MIKE_B]

Thanks for the heads up Thad

 

[smokey_44]

HAHAHA Thanks to Thad for the help I was wondering about the color thing too. I kept setting it in the config but didn't save the file. Then when I reopen again and again it reset back to orginal. So thanks Thad for helping me without even knowing it. I saved it now and it works great.

 

 

Dave

[Thad]

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So thanks Thad for helping me without even knowing it.

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It had me scratching my head too. It's clearly spelled out in the What's New file, but I usually don't have time to read that stuff.

 

Thad

[Guy Arseneault]

Doing something wrong.

 

 

I did this:

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A revisit here.

I was playing around with the V7 colors chook but now I want to go back to X colors. Anyone no how I can do this. I came in this morning and the V7 stuck with my default config.

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Then I followed this:

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Open up the Colors dialog and click on the 'Customize' tab. See the button on the right that looks like a curved arrow over a horizontal line (the tooltip says "reload system default colors)? That's the one!

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Doesn't work for me.

 

I open MCX. Click on colors tab on bottom of screen. Did what Pete said to do. Then did what Thad said to do. Didn't worked. I then put another .dll file to replace the v7colors.dll in the default tab of Start/Exit settings. That didn't work.

Is there something else to change in the config?

[bellyup]

open the colors box from the status bar. not the config.

[Guy Arseneault]

bellyup,

I did do that. From the config it doesn't have what Pete said.

[Mjölnir]

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Is there something else to change in the config?

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Open your .config file in a text editor (e.g. notepad) and find and remove the custom colors. They are identified like this;

 

5516. Custom color 16? 0

5517. Custom color 17? 7864320

5518. Custom color 18? 30720

5519. Custom color 19? 12105728

5520. Custom color 20? 120

5521. Custom color 21? 7864440

5522. Custom color 22? 15992

etc.

 

Of course, backup your config file first.

[bellyup]

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From the config it doesn't have what Pete said.

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that's correct.

 

when i open the colors box from the status bar(wcs,planes,attributes,level,etc.), it is a different looking box. has 2 tabs at top.

colors and customize. the customize page has an icon over to the right (looks like undo).

[Guy Arseneault]

Exactly. That's where I went. But then Thad said this:

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You'll have to save your config file after making the change back....or it won't change back.

 

Thad

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What do you change?

[bellyup]

once you have reached the icon in the customize box and used it, i beleive you'll need to open your config dialog and just save it. that will overwrite the old one.

if thad's listening in maybe he can confirm.

[Thad]

bellyup's got it. Just open your config and save it. FYI, this is all spelled out in the "What's New" file, but if your like most, we don't have time to read that stuff.

 

Thad

[Guy Arseneault]

Thad, I did just that, but it ain't still working.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Reset it hit all the checkmarks to save and restart MCX

[Guy Arseneault]

I got it. I had to click on the double disk icon(save as)in the lower left corner of the config page.

 

Thanks everybody for your time.

[Nick_AFRL]

i used the VB ver7 color off the ftp and it set my colors back to oldschool.....

[Kelly Burns]

Whats the advantage of using the old colors?

[Thad]

Kelly,

 

They're organized like a Windows color selector. All shades of the base color are in a row. They're not all over the place like they are by default.

 

Thad