Part color when shaded

I have a part which has now decided to only display, when shaded, with
the color black. I say decided as this wasn't always the case. The
display color is OK when the part is shaded in an assembly and can be
changed there (for the assembly only). If the part is rolled back to
the first feature the color is still black even though a thorough
investigation shows no faces or feature having that color assigned. the
system default 191/191/191 appears on everything I have found.

I would appreciate any insight as to where/what to examine. This is in
2006 with all SPs installed.

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to all.

Gary

 

Color ..and texture ...can be changed at different levels,
face...feature and part. If the part color is changed to black....just
change it back to light grey, if it's changed in any other
level ...remove color. There is also a difference in using real view
graphics, if the material is set to use material color the part color
will change when real view is turned off. I've had my problems too
with this and it's not always that easy to find out where it's
changed, especially when other people been involved too.

If the part is very dark it can also depend on light setting....check
that too

// Krister

 

Thanks, but I've looked through all those choices. Real view (on or
off) doesn't change anything. No textures are assigned. Changing
material doesn't show any differently. More light just makes a
"lighter" shade of black. If I change the color to say dark magenta,
the edge lines (in shaded with edges) appear magenta but the faces are
all now still black but with a magenta tint, if you can visualize that.
I have always thought that SWs handling of colors could be improved
but this "problem" is new to me. Since the color of the part can be
changed in the assembly, I really don't have to fix it but I would like
to find out what causes the situation.

Gary

 

well....can't say for sure but have a vague mamory of fixing a problem
like this by going in to the feature properties and remove color there
(entity properties). Nothing else helped and no color assigned
anywhere. You can also change the optical properties, so for example
set diffusion to zero and it will be black, but....if You choose a new
color after that..light grey... it will go back.

// Krister

 

I've run into this at work recently with someonewho should know
better:
Here is how the hierarchy works (at least through 2007 - I refuse to
predict any changes in 2008)

Do you know the concept of 'trump' with cards? A trump suit
obliterates any other card's value in a non-trumping suit

So...
Component color (assigned in an assembly) trumps everything under it -
face colors, feature colors, and part colors.
Face color trumps feature color
Features color trumps body color (if you have mutliple boies in the
part)
Body color trumps part color
part color is the lowest.


You can RMB any item you want and choose 'appearance callouts' in the
RMB menu to remove a trumping color. Just remember that you have to
dig down - there are categories from teh RMB assembly level for face,
feature, and body and you mihgt have to clear them all.

Let me know if this works, or more importantly if it doesnt't because
it is an extra level of crazy complexity and I am not sure if I have
it all right


Ed