Different colors for different parts in a drawing sheet?

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

 

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

 

Thanks John!
That will do what I need.

Muggs

 

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

 

Matt's got a 'Colorize' macro that will random change parts in assy's to
random colors... I haven't tried it.

http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/

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