Different colors for different parts in a drawing sheet?

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Muggs, Jul 14, 2005.

  1. Muggs

    Muggs Guest

    Hello All,

    Sorry for the stupid question, but I don't a whole lot of drawings.
    I would like to show a cross-section and show the different parts using
    thier own (or others) colors.
    Is this possible?

    TIA,
    Muggs
     
    Muggs, Jul 14, 2005
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  2. Muggs

    John Layne Guest

    Yup it's possible

    Just set up layers in the drawing file and change parts to different
    layers with differing colours. Note there is a bug or was a bug, if you
    do a detail view of a section view the colours don't match the section
    view (random colours) I have an SPR for this. SolidWorks came back
    saying it's fixed in SWX 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't
    think they plan on fixing it at all in SWX2005

    But if you don't need details of sections it should work just fine.

    Regards

    John Layne
     
    John Layne, Jul 14, 2005
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  3. Muggs

    Muggs Guest

    Thanks John!
    That will do what I need.

    Muggs
     
    Muggs, Jul 14, 2005
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  4. Muggs

    Tin Man Guest

    Shaded views will work as well. At least you won't have to manually set
    up the layers. I think that there was a macro at www.dynabits.com to
    automate the layer creation and assigning random colors to the
    wireframes, but that site is no longer available and I can't remamber
    where I saved the macro.

    Ken
     
    Tin Man, Jul 14, 2005
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  5. Muggs

    whit Guest

    whit, Jul 14, 2005
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