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[#1]

Hello!

Sitaution: A drawing of a big assembly. In the first (base) view I have colored the parts with different colors.

Question: Can somebody help me with a rule that  makes the parts from the projected views to have the some colors from the base view?

Just a simple example:

Part1 - Red

Part2 - Blue

Part3 - Green

So I need the these parts from the projected views to have the same colors . It would really help me a lot, because I spending a lot of time with big assemblies. 

Or if it is not that easy to make this kind of rule, give me some tips how should I start and what snippets it should contain. I'm new to iLogic and programming, I found it quite difficult...

[#2]

HI fakeru,

I'm sure it could be done with iLogic, but I'm not sure it needs to.

Unless I've misunderstood, you can setup View Represenations in your assembly to do this, and then set the projected views to use the same View Rep. as the base view.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#3]

Based on the details from you, could you provide more details how to color the parts in Assembly? Actually there are two ways to color parts -

1. We color the parts with different colors in assembly. When creating base view with shaded style, both of base and project views are colored with the same colors in part. And We can create different presentation views for different colors settings, and the project views are colored with the same colors in base view. Please see the "Shaded.png"

2. We color the parts with different colors in drawing browser. When creating base view, and then change the color within component properties in browser. Please see the "HideLineRemoved.png". If you want to get the project view with the same color in base view, we can leverage the ILogic.

Please let me know what the expected solution you prefer. That I can take the further action.

Thanks,
River Cai

[#4]

I'm with Curtis on this one.. an assembly view rep would accomplish this easily and without the need for any coding.

[#5]

Mcgyvr,

I think the OP want to make dwg / idw views with parts in color but not shaded parts, ie normal 2-D line work.

If color in view reps could be translated to line work in the drawing, that would be perfect. But, I don't kow how to accomplish that. 

[#6]

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rdyson wrote:

Mcgyvr,

I think the OP want to make dwg / idw views with parts in color but not shaded parts, ie normal 2-D line work.

If color in view reps could be translated to line work in the drawing, that would be perfect. But, I don't kow how to accomplish that. 

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Well then he should have stated that. He said he colored the parts..not the lines.

[#7 · Accepted solution]

HI fakeru,

If it is the line color you're asking about, this might helpful:

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/changing-drawing-curves-to-match-assembly-color.h...

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#8]

sorry guys for not giving enough details about my question.

So i need to color the parts edges.

This is the way I'm doing it:

1.Select the part from a view (fisrt enable the filter "Select Part Priority ")

2.Right click-->Properties --> Color ---> Choose the color

Here are some screenshots 

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/65/unled3cu.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3948/unled4kj.jpg

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/3073/11589937.jpg 

To understand how much I need the solution check out this screenshot:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2624/13787548.jpg 

and this is just medium assembly from my work... 

[#9]

Curtis, this is good solution for me! thank you very much!

But there is still a small problem. Some parts I don't need to color, but I if run that macro, all the parts are colored according to assembly color... and none of them will be black (as I never make parts black). 

I think the best for me would be that I give the colors in the first view and then the parts properties  are copied to others views.

Thanks!

Alexandru 

[#10]

Hi fakeru, 

I think View Representations will still be a big part of your solution. Rather than manually selecting the components at the drawing level, you should be able to apply color overrides at the assembly level and color your each component just like you want it to apear in the drawing.  Then save that as a View Representation that you use in the drawing view(s). This way you can have parts colored as black for the drawing views, but have them as their "real" color in the assembly.

Then you can use Brian Ekin's routine.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com