Colors settings

[Reverend Turk]

I don't care for the way my parts look and at times iot is tough to see some of the lines I am looking for when I am in solid mode. This lead me to wonder how you guys have your colors set up to best see all features in solid mode and to not "lose" geometry when you highlight it.

[MLS]

My selected color turns white and I don't use white for anything else.I have a Alt-S set up for shade model and I have Alt-A set up for shading translucency. That way I can be in a selection mode, hit the hotkeys to toggle back and forth if I need it. Other than that, pretty much out of the box setup for colors.

[Reverend Turk]

I like the Alt S and Alt A..I am now using those!!

 

Any other suggestions people??

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

Hey Turk,

 

For what its worth...when I import a model I always turn on my EA manager (under the Attributes button) that I have preset to turn all surfaces red and all wireframe green. When I am working in MC, I always work in wireframe mode and not in shaded, so it is easy to see exactly what I am selecting, even on the back side of a part. Selected objects turn white and I have my background set to black. Seems to make selecting easier for these old eyes.

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

My personal preference is to use a black back ground, and a hot-pink sort of color for pre-selection highlighting, and a bright blue for selected items. I also use ALT-S to switch between shaded and wireframe, but I have that button combo mapped to my Spaceball to make switching back and forth even easier (I switch a lot!)

[Colin Gilchrist]

Turk,

 

I also find the 'Quick mask' buttons to be a huge help when selecting geometry. For example, say you have a model file open and it has a ton of surfaces, a solid, and wireframe.

 

You want to select just some of the wireframe and do something with it (change color, level, whatever). Go to the quick mask button for 'Wireframe' and right click to set the "Only" selection mode.

 

Now when you move your cursor over the geometry, only the wireframe will auto-highlight. The surfaces and solid faces don't get in your way anymore...

 

HTH,

[Greg_J]

The way I do it is I make my wire frame black and the model what ever colour, I don't work with surfaces I just have a wire frame and a solid. When I select my wire frame it turns yellow so I am very clear what I am choosing.

 

That's what works for me, it kinda looks like a file from solid works.

 

HTH

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

Colin,

 

Thanks for the tip. It is always a pain when I am trying to select wireframe and auto highlight keeps hilighting solid faces, surfaces etc......

[gcode]

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It is always a pain when I am trying to select wireframe and auto highlight keeps hilighting solid faces, surfaces etc......

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I create wirefraem only where I need it..

When chaining wireframe with solids that

are visible, just hit "ALT S" to unshade the solid..surfaces wonn't highlight when they are unshaded

 

[ 09-22-2008, 11:10 PM: Message edited by: gcode ]

[Reverend Turk]

Ok, I set my background from to blue to black and am working on changing the selcted entities.

 

I thought somewher there was a "revert back to original" button for the colors but I can't seem to find that.

 

Also, when I go to the Settings/Config/Cad and turn on the attribute manager, set my attributes and save it, all of that disapperas when I open a new file. I can go back and it is no longer checked and my colors set...what is happening?

[k turk]

that scenario sounds like you may not be logged in with administrative privileges.

[Reverend Turk]

No..I am because if I wasn't it would tell me I could not save the file once I tried to save the config settings

[k turk]

if i understand your problem - i've had a similar problem with another program. it did allow me to save my changes and worked as i set them. the problem was that the changes didn't stick to other files or sessions. i had to log in as an administrator and change my user profile to have modify permissions.

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

Double check to make sure you have write previledges on your Mastercam folder (and all sub folders)--full control is better.

[Reverend Turk]

I will do that now

[Reverend Turk]

Yes, I have write privilages..when I change the settings it stays changed until I open a new part.

[George Hardwick]

If you would like to revert to the default colours,

Settings/Config/Merge/(initial Met/English) and just check colours tab.

Best to save your own config first so you have the option to go back.

[Bruce Kanzelmeyer]

Are you saving your settings as a custom settings? After you have screen settings the way you want, open settings/configuration form and save as a custom setting, like "Turks settings". Then go to start/exit and select that custom setting under startup configuration. Then it should open that way every time.

[Reverend Turk]

Ok..got that figured out but I still have one thing I didn't have before. When I click on "Outline Shaded" in version X2 the solid faces did not highlight as I rolled over them..it only did that in "shaded" Now it does it in both and is making me crazy. How can I eliminate that?

[BrianP.]

I like using Blank Entity and Un-Blank Entity. I go to Blank Entity, select all, solids and it hides my solids and I'm left with just the wire frame. I also will use this when Mastercam is grabbing more geometry than I want when I am chaining. Just blank the entity do your chain then un blank it after.