Sub assembly colours in sw2004?

jjs wrote on 19.9.2003 23:38

I was just looking to see about your question, because I have an assembly
open and do not have this problem. However, I have colored my parts with the
"color" tool and not by defining the material. And my subassemblies look
fine.

So to experiment I just opened a part and decided to apply a material...
Well, that totally locked up the program! CPU was peaked out and program not
responding. So I ended it and started again. Then the same thing happened...
But after about 2 minutes it applied the material! Strange... Now I can
switch materials normally. Does the program have to to some sort of first
run thing the first time materials are used? I think this is the first time
I applied them since installing 2004sp0.

Anyway, everything updated fine in the subassembly. What I was wondering was
if there was some strange behavior between materials and Edit Color feature,
because I vaguely remember having the same problem during the beta
process...

anyway...

You might try to RMB on the subassy in the FM and select the color button on
the right. Then select remove color as that would/should remove any setting
you may have made in the parent assembly. Sometimes that can cause this
behaviour (especially if this is an assembly created before 2004).

Hope that helps!

Daniel

 

Is this a known problem - I don't seem to be able to get the part
colours to show correctly in a sub assembly.

When the sub-assembly is open the parts have various colours. All is
well.

When the main assembly is viewed, the sub-assembly (with all the
coloured parts) just shows as a grey.

Very frustrating - Have I missed something in the new SW options or
interface?


What do people feel about the new 'chunky' lines - I find them all a
bit too much on the eye and find selecting a face very difficult -
always seems to select edges. I keep using the 'x' hotkey to select a
face. Is there a way to 're-weight' the way the cursor automatically
shows what is being selected?


Anyway - back to the grind and relearning the software ;-)


Regards



Jonathan stedman

 

Mike J. Wilson wrote on 19.9.2003 21:41

That fits: It was a very curvy office chair base. Good to know so I don't
freak out next time. Have you noticed a difference if the surface is
imported verses constructed in SW?

Suppose I should have waited rather than kill the process the first time.
Just not patient enough and always suspicious of PCs when they start doing
their own thing....

Dan