Custom colours in Inventor DWG - is it possible to save custom palette?

[DS-precast]

Is it possible to define a set of custom colours for use in Inventor DWG's and for those colours to be available after shutting down Inventor and re-starting.

I need to define a limited set of custom colours that will be re-used frequently to colour the parts and assemblies in the Inventor drawing views. I can create a set of custom colours using the "Define Custom Colors >>" button in the Color dialog box, but these custom colours do not save in the template ( I  have tried); and only seem to be available during the current Inventor session.

Does anybody know a way to solve this?

Or alternatively, is it possible to amend the "Basic colors:" shown in the dialog box, to create a palette of colours in the order I require, to make it easier to select colours etc.

Any help would be very welome.

Many thanks.

[Cadmanto]

I would look into creating layers with set colors for each layer.

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[DS-precast]

Thanks for the reply Cadmanto.

The geometry needs to be on the same layer, so it's not really an option to put different objects on colour-based layers. I'm exporting the drawing views into AutoCAD as blocks, using DesignCenter to redefine as necessary, so all the colours need to be applied in Inventor.

[Cadmanto]

So your looking for the colors represented in the model to be reflected into the drawing views?  Have you tried changing the view style (i.e. shaded, shaded with edges, wireframe etc.)

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[DS-precast]

Not really.

All the components are precast concrete and have a default colour in the model. However when I export the drawing views to AutoCAD, I need to colour each component to aid differentiation in the orthographic views.

I was hoping to set up a palette of colours that I could use to simply colour various parts. The "Basic Colors" seem a little disorganised and I was trying to simplify the process so that I would use the same limited set of colours each time.

Is there any logic to the order that the Basic Colours are shown?

[Cadmanto]

See if this thread offers any kind of solution for you.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/IDW-not-showing-correct-color-styles/td-p/3608560

As far as the color pallette, I would look into the color styles.  I have not done this, but I know to setup your own colors that would be the place to start.

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[DS-precast]

I have searched Inventor for some way into this but have not found anyway to set up colour styles or palettes etc

Could you please point me in the right direction to start to investigate. I'm using IV2013 Professional

[Cadmanto]

Here is some reading for you to get started with from the help file.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?url=http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2014/ENU/Inve...

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[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

persistant custom colors in the color picker is not possible today in Inventor..

BUT Microsoft includes the functionality to do so.. it just wasn't built into Inventor and it needs to be handled by the program (Inventor).

[Cadmanto]

This is another thread I found that might help you.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/User-Color-Scheme/m-p/3434615#M432995

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