V9 File Import Turned Model Red

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

I thought this was interesting.

 

Going thru all my old demo/sample parts from V9. When I converted them to X3, some of the solids were red. They were clamps and such. I tried Clear Colors and it did nothing.

 

I was going to delete and re-insert the clamps. But after I deleted them, I thought I'd try doing an Undelete. Sure enough the part cam back in the right colors.

 

You may never run into this problem but there is a simple solution: Delete and Undelete to clear the colors.

 

Mike Mattera

[Thee Rickster ™]

Mike in X3

 

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[Mark H]

Possibly they were in a "group". In X click on "groups" button at the bottom of the screen. Select a group and then colors, then use entity colors.

[Cuda84]

You can also change this under settings,configuration, color, Use entities colors, insted of group colors.

[Mark H]

Also there is a setting in the System configuration, colors, group colors, use entity colors (or use group colors). You can also separately select Use group and result color in xform.

 

Edit

Yeah what Cuda84 said

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

No Guys. I looked at all that stuff. None of it worked. This is a fluke thing that I just stumbled on the solution.

 

I see something Red and I assume it's a group. Clear Colors, etc, etc, did nothing. Close and re-open Mcam. Nothing.

 

Delete and Undelete and it came back in the normal colors.

 

 

It was very strange. That's why I posted it.

 

Mike Mattera

[Cuda84]

Clear colors dose not clear group colors, just result colors.

[Mark H]

"Clear colors" won't clear a groups colors, it only clears xformedcopiedmoved geometry colors. Those are two different things. Did you try what I suggested?

 

Edit

D*mit Cuda84...

[crazy^millman]

Mike sometimeS I get a ghosted red outline of a solid. Either Ram server or Restart will clear it out nothing else. I am using a Hotrod system at home and see it just like I do on our Ok system at work.

 

 

HTH

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

I believe your right. I stand corrected. I seem to remember that (now) from when I first updated to X.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Mike Mattera

[Jaz]

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Possibly they were in a "group". In X click on "groups" button at the bottom of the screen. Select a group and then colors, then use entity colors.

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Or you can choose to 'delete' the 'group' from the same "groups" menu. That won't remove the entities in the group, just their association as a group.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Mike,

If you used File/Merge to bring in the file(s), you're creating Groups, and in V9, the default is to use the group's color (default = red) rather than the entities' colors.

In X, it will still make the Group(s), but that Config switch now defaults to the entities' colors.

And like others have pointed out, a Group is different from "the entities that were selected for Xform" which get assigned the 'group color' and can be cleared with Clear Colors.

 

We should have changed the terminology for those 'Xform' kinds of 'groups' after we implemented geometry 'groups', but some legacy stuff just won't die.

 

BTW...Welcome back...