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phillips9121-Visitor
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July 5, 2018
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Assembly parts changing color when converting to STP files?

  • July 5, 2018
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In Creo Parametric 4.0, I have an assembly with different parts assigned different colors. When I convert to a STP file, exported as AP214 which is supposed to retain colors, the shade of the colors changes. For example I go from a beige color to a blinding white. Any ideas how to fix this?

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
July 11, 2018

Hi,

please open Case at PTC Support and ask them same question.

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
July 11, 2018

I did a quick test by exporting a sample assembly to STEP and exported STEP retained colors. 

Do you have any images or cad file to share here? Is this something specific to data or with all of the files you are having same issue? 

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phillips9121-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
July 11, 2018

I can't share the files that these color changes are happening to because it's company IP. However the colors that are changing are as follows:

 

Paint-spray-white

Antique-white

Ptc-ceramic

Adv-plastic-injected-white

 

I'm not sure if this is a problem unique to these assemblies or with these colors. I am going to try putting these colors in another model and testing to see if they are retained by the STP file.

Also to answer your last question this is happening in ~100 assemblies granted they are all the same parts just in different variations.

EDIT: Attached now should be the original part file (screenshot) and what it looks like with its loss of color. this is using the paint-spray-white, ptc-ceramic, and adv-plastic-injected-white colors, so I'm assuming the problem is with these colors.

Chris3
Chris321-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
July 11, 2018

try setting

 

u3d_create_color_surfaces yes

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