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M.Shuler8-Gravel
8-Gravel
February 21, 2020
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Override Mold System Colors

  • February 21, 2020
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After designing my mold cavity and extracting the mold components they are assigned a color based on my system color settings. My company will take those mold components and reassemble them in a standalone assembly to be inserted into a mold base, I will usually changed the color and maybe add transparency to each individual component at this time. My issue is if I ever need to make a geometry change in the manufacturing assembly, all the components are reassigned back to the default system colors again.

 

Does anyone know of a way to stop the system colors overriding my user defined appearances? I know I can change the system color to something else but I generally don't want all the mold components the same color, different colors makes it easier for the toolmakers to differentiate parts and shutoff locations.

 

Thanks.

Best answer by rzukowski

Sorry, I didn't mention that it's a hidden option.  You will have to enter it manually in your config.pro using a text editor.coloring.jpg

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rzukowski13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
February 27, 2020

Try setting the config.pro option, enable_mold_extract_coloring to NO.  By default, it is set to yes.  This worked for my company.

 

This may not work on existing mold splits, but should work on new ones.  I wonder if PTC internally tags those surfaces during the split creation, which cannot be over-road by the config.pro setting.

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M.Shuler8-GravelAuthor
8-Gravel
February 27, 2020

I cannot find that option in my config editor. I am currently using Creo 4, maybe this is an option in later versions. I will check this option after my company updates our version.

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rzukowski13-AquamarineAnswer
13-Aquamarine
February 28, 2020

Sorry, I didn't mention that it's a hidden option.  You will have to enter it manually in your config.pro using a text editor.coloring.jpg

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