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Anyone have a way to change colors of instances

Douglas K. Bowles
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[BrentDrysdale]

Hi Doug,
Up till WF4 it was not possible directly do this. Not sure in WF5 (have not
tried it yet).

There are some work arounds.

One is to assign material with different colour and change those in the
Family table. You can make materials that are just colours if you want. Of
course this causes problems if you are trying to do mass calculations of do
strength/heat analysis.

Another is to make an offset surface from the solid model (if it will do
this) by a very small amount. Then copy this quilt as many times as you
need colours and assign colours to each surface. Finally have
or suppress each of these surfaces in your family table.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Brent Drysdale
Senior Mechanical Designer
Tait Radio Communications
New Zealand
DDI +64 3 358 1093
www.taitradio.com


On 16 September 2010 09:59, Douglas K Bowles
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> Anyone have a way to change colors of instances
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> Douglas K. Bowles
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> From: Mike Fredericksen/RWS/Raytheon/US To: Douglas K
> Bowles/US/Raytheon@MAIL Date: 09/15/2010 02:29 PM Subject: do you know

[ptc-2032585]

Just to add something to the surface copy method. I've never had the need to offset the surface.

I usually use the SOLID SURFACES copy without offsets.

Rui

On 15.09.

[BrentDrysdale]

Hi Rui,
I am surprised! When I do this without the offset I get a shimmering
surface of the base part colour and the surface colour. In fact we have
used, and I have seen others discuss, this effect for visually comparing
parts assembled on top of each other as shimmering colour = same and solid
colour of either part = larger than the other.

In any case the real deal for ProE is "whatever works for you" 🙂


Regards, Brent Drysdale
Senior Mechanical Designer
Tait Radio Communications
New Zealand
DDI +64 3 358 1093
www.taitradio.com

[ptc-2032585]

Do you apply the surface colour to both sides of the quilt?

Truth be said, that I have mostly used this with isolated parts...

Rui



On 16.09.