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11-Garnet
April 21, 2020
Question

Creo 7.0 sketcher constraint color, black on dark background

  • April 21, 2020
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Using Creo 7.0 as of today, I use the dark per-Wildfire dark background, the sketcher constraints appear black on the dark background, they appear light colored when I hover over them, is that the intent?  Sketcher appearance is grayed out so I'm unable to change the constraint color.  Is PTC trying to force people to use the default/light background???

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24-Ruby III
April 22, 2020

@TB_7118605 wrote:

Using Creo 7.0 as of today, I use the dark per-Wildfire dark background, the sketcher constraints appear black on the dark background, they appear light colored when I hover over them, is that the intent?  Sketcher appearance is grayed out so I'm unable to change the constraint color.  Is PTC trying to force people to use the default/light background???


Hi,

if I set Creo 7.0 Dark Theme I can see following "picture".

dark.png

If you are using Custom theme (system colors file) defined in the past then you have to define a new one.

11-Garnet
April 22, 2020

Yes, I was using the below colors, set in my config.pro, I'll try the dark theme.

system_background_color 256 256 256

 

Thanks, Tom

6-Contributor
September 30, 2021

You can also add  "sketcher_pre_creo4_constraints yes"  to your config.pro

This will use the classic constraints. Sketcher appearance will not be grayed out.

14-Alexandrite
February 23, 2022

We just updated to Creo 7 recently, and some of our users were having this issue.  I was able to resolve it for them with a simple edit to their syscol.scl file.  Edited the first line to read "COLOR_SCHEME 0".  Affected users had "COLOR_SCHEME 7" there.  So was able to resolve the glitch without having to change the color scheme they've become accustomed to.