Adding color to surfaces within drawing

kwagner · ‎Jan 11, 2016

Hello all,

To begin, I'm running Creo 3.0. In my application, I have a drawing for a plastic housing and I need to indicate where a coating should be applied and where a mask should be applied. Since it is a complex shape, it would be easiest if I could shade areas of the wireframe view. However, this is becoming quite difficult.

I took the route of applying the color grey to the areas of the model that I want masked from coating and the color white to areas that should be coated. In my drawing, I then used the "shading with edges" view. All is great, except the software tries to give it a 3D feel by giving the faces a gradient/shadow. Therefore, my greys and whites are hard to distinguish from one another. Is there a way to turn off the color gradient/shadows? Is there a better approach to what I'm trying to accomplish?

Thanks for your help!

Kyle

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TomD.inPDX · ‎Jan 11, 2016

GAWD I WISH!!! ...

I am very happy PTC put shaded views in drawings since Pro|E. But what a crummy implementation!

I find myself doing a lot of finagling to get a good image on the drawing. Normally they are way to dark and my whole model needs to be white or pastels... and oriented for the default lights. It is a black box and we cannot change much at all!

Technically, this is what drawing sketches and closed boundaries and x-hatching is for. You could try using pure colors on your model that minimizes the light gradients. Surface textures too -may- be easier to use than colors.

Last tip, you can use a shaded view without wireframe, and align the same view on top of it (manage view origins) in normal no-hidden mode. What this does is make all the lines black, where they may not be in the shaded-w/edges view.