14-Alexandrite

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Creo 2 Default color scheme.

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
September 12, 2012
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With the Creo suite of apps the default color scheme uses a white background. We are curious to see how many users keep this color scheme or change is to black or maybe even the old Wildfire scheme.

What are the reasons you keep/change this?

Andy Hermanson
Engineering Design Applications

tel 605.275.1040 x51114 mobile 605.310.8168
website www.daktronics.com

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lococnc

1-Visitor

Absolutely hate the white background.

We all use the old blue blended, much easier on the eyes.

Who the heck uses the white background? That is terrible!

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dgschaefer

21-Topaz II

I love the white background, in fact I changed my WF5 scheme to use it
as well. It's much easier on the eyes to me. It may be because we also
use Solidworks here as well and it uses a white background by default as
well. I never really liked the blended blue, although the blended gray
is OK.

The very old, pre-WF was the most useful, but it's pretty glaring to me
now. Everything since makes things too similar like the light brown vs.
dark brown for the sides of a datum plane. Creo is the first one that I
haven't felt that way about in a long time.

Doug Schaefer

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RonWerner

1-Visitor

White backgrounds tend to make on the fly screen shot much more readable when being passed between a group of designers

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MIchael_Ohlrich

1-Visitor

We changed our background to black... It is really nice on the eyes!

And you don't see a big difference between modeling and drawing which has always had a black background.

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Benchmade Knife Company
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ptc-141274

1-Visitor

I use a blended black background. This dates back when the defaults to many software screens were black. I agree on the white being good for screen shots and color printing! I do have a mapkey to toggle the background to white for times like those.

~Doug

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jnelson

14-Alexandrite

I have the background black.
I also change the color scheme of the Datum Planes, Text, everything....back to the WF3 color scheme

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TomD.inPDX

17-Peridot

I use aclassic dark blue gradient and yellow with white part edges in the drawing. Wish I could change the menus to match.

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BrentDrysdale

12-Amethyst

Hi Folks,
My 10c (we dropped the smaller coins)

Still on WF5
I start with the pre WF colour scheme with the graduated blue background.
I do this as I find the bright colour backgrounds (any of the newer ones)
to be too hard on my old eyes. The darker background eases eyestrain for
me and like Joel I prefer the old colours for datum planes and curves etc
as I find that the newer colours used on the brighter screens are harder
to distinguish apart. I could use black but I find I get better depth
perception with the graduated blue. I anticipate doing very similar in
Creo 2.0 when I test next week.
I do note though that some younger users prefer the lighter coloured new
screens. Each of our users can choose what suits them.
I also have mapkeys for swapping colour schemes. One to go to full white
background for screen capture as mentioned another for one of the earlier
Grey WF backgrounds and one to restore me to the pre WF scheme with the
graduated Blue.

As a maybe interesting aside I note many comments on how eReaders are much
easier for prolonged reading than Tablets. The Tablets look lovely with a
white screen but try reading for a few hours and see how you go. I am
guessing the advantage for an eReader is due to the passive nature of its
screens with no back-lighting.

Antonius mentions the menus and I know in WF5 I can use a config
setting *ui_theme
standard* which allows me to set the menu surround and fonts etc to
whatever Windows uses and I have that set to XP Classic (yes I am a
dinosaur). maybe this is useful to others especially if it works in Creo.

Regards,

*Brent Drysdale*
*Senior Design Engineer*
Tait Communications

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RonGrabau

1-Visitor

OK, So here is my humble and probably worthless opinion since everyone will just do what they want.

I have always been resistant to changing the colors. When I first started with Pro/E, I hated the bright blue. I was use to black... I got use to it. When the other color changes happened over the years, I hated them too but again, I got use to them.

Now Creo is out. I must admit that I am not as young as I use to be and to be honest, some of the color schemes are really hard for me to see. Try editing a feature and the purple feature color and blue dimensions are almost impossible for me to see. When in sheet metal the new default part color and the white background make it impossible to see the part unless you have the shading with edges turned on (which I do and love). Here is a capture of a flat sheet metal wall without shade with edges. White on white is hard to see.
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Some of my part colors are now in conflict with the highlighting colors. I always avoided red and now I think green, orange, purple and a few others will need to be avoided.

Highlighting is also interesting. You get a surface type display until you actually pick on something. Then you get the green edge display (hence my desire to avoid green on the part model)

So, I have only been working on Creo2 for a few weeks. I am trying my best to leave the color scheme alone and see if I adapt. It has worked for me in the past so I am hoping that it will serve me well again. So far, the blended background have been my favorite. I must admit that after a few weeks I have adapted to most of this. I still struggle with dimensions during edits and part creation. Sometimes the edge highlighting is hard for me to see but for the most part, I don't really seem to have a preference.

I am just glad that there are options and we can adopt what we think is best!

Ronald B. Grabau
HP PDE-IT
Roseville, CA
916-785-3298
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ptc-1932745

1-Visitor

Using CREO1, I find the white background too harsh and hard on the eyes
and use a uniform dark slate blue background. I don't use the gradient
blue grey background at it has too little color saturation difference to
the entity colors and saturation. I think it was Computervision that
did a study in the early 80's that claimed a dark background tinted
slightly red or blue was the easiest on the eyes. Stark black
backgrounds were not optimum.

I use a mix of new and older Pro-e colors, with surfaces and edges the
current purple-yellow respectively.(the older purple-pink scheme was
idiotic)

I am trying to use the current brown-grey plane scheme, this is slightly
better than the older scheme, but not a visible as the original
red-yellow. I try to have important feature differences have high
saturation (or brightness) values to stand out not just in color.

Not to start a flame war, but so many things about the interface seem to
have been given little thought in regards to being easily recognizable.
The use of pastel colors with little difference in saturation make the
color schemes less than optimum. What was so wrong with the
pre-wildfire (rev-19) colors anyway?

Christopher F. Gosnell

FPD Company

124 Hidden Valley Road

McMurray, PA 15317

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