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ChristianSmith1-Visitor
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August 18, 2010
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Is it possible to expand appearance library?

  • August 18, 2010
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There are very few appearances in wildfire 5.0. Does anybody know if you can download more (i.e. different metals or textures)?


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CM101-Visitor
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August 23, 2010

If you can;t find something on the internet, and nobody want's to give you one, you can create your own appearances, and save the file for re-use later. Also, you can assign an appearance to different materials in your material library, so a black-oxide bolt and a brass bolt look like they should. That's a little buggy in WF3, I think works better in WF4, and don't use WF5 so I can;t speak for that.

Good luck.

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pwyndham1-Visitor
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August 23, 2010

Here is my appearance file. I have the file divided up into color groups. Pro/E does it alphabetically by name, so I add a 01_ and so forth to the front of the color name to get the greys together.

Forgot to say: put the file in your startin directory, or maybe in your loadpoint\text directory.

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    DavidButz1-Visitor
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    August 25, 2010

    Christian,

    Here is a technique that will quickly give you a nice palette of many different compatible colors. [This technique works in WF 3.0; don't know if the technique is much different in 4.0 or 5.0.] Go to View/Color and Appearance, pick <ref_color1> or any other color and use a "+" to start a new color. Pick the color patch defining the color, pick HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value), and pick the arrow to display the Color Wheel. Adjust S & V to your liking, then set H to 0.0. (You can slide the H handle back and forth to test your S-V combination before setting it to 0.0) Save that color and name it Hue-0. Copy that color, change H from 0.0 to 10.0, save and name it Hue-10. Continue until you have 36 compatible colors, enough for most assemblies.

    David

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    ptc-29361911-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 25, 2010

    Here is a pretty good color library for WF 5.0

    John

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    ChristianSmith1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 31, 2010

    All of these are great, I guess I wasn't too specific with my original question. What I mean isn't necessarily the colors and messing with tints, and shading and such. More specifically I wanted to know if PTC provided more appearances (maybe I'm using the wrong term), maybe the correct word is textures. (i.e. wood, fabric, rocks, carpet....). Is it possible to get more of those types of appearances?

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    CamiloParraPala1-Visitor
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    January 14, 2012

    Yes Christian it is possible check this Creo ARX appearances library

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