Hi,
Just started using SW fulltime (I'm used to Inventor), so there's a small transistion phase...
Anway, I got this assembly with 10 parts in it, I want to give 7 of these parts a different color, yet still be able to quickly switch back to the default colors.
I belive the feature is called level of detail in Inventor.
John,
You can apply colors to parts that only are used in the assembly, so when you open the parts in their own windows they have the original color. Does that meet your needs?
You can also assign different colors to parts in different display states. You can quickly switch between display states.
You can also assign different colors to different configurations of the parts. This is likely to take more resources and be a bit slower than display states, which is why (I think) display states were developed.
Jerry S.
Double-click on the small double arrows pointing to the right at the very top right corner of your assembly tree. This will expand the tree so that you can easily control appearance, visibility, etc. for components. Clicking on the appearance column for a given part will open the Appearance PropertyManager, where you can make changes. Near the top of the PropertyManager you can choose to have this apply to the part file, or to the assembly (component), which I believe is what you want.
This will allow you to assign a seperate color for each instance of a part in your assembly without affecting the part file.
John,
You can apply colors to parts that only are used in the assembly, so when you open the parts in their own windows they have the original color. Does that meet your needs?
You can also assign different colors to parts in different display states. You can quickly switch between display states.
You can also assign different colors to different configurations of the parts. This is likely to take more resources and be a bit slower than display states, which is why (I think) display states were developed.
Jerry S.