We just upgraded Inventor from 2013 to 2014.
I opened a model generated in previous releases and noticed that there were parts with a strange yellow highlight.
Turns out the parts aren't explicitly highlighted, it's just that their edges are yellow. I have no idea why.
See the screenshot below.
I usually work in the 'Shaded with Edges' view style. I found that if the view style is changed to 'Shaded' or 'Realistic', the yellow disappears with the edges.
The only parts the yellow edges seem to affect are ones generated as surfaces. I would like to know how to turn the yellow off is possible. So far I've tried changing the part appearance in the toolbar and changing the surface body properties in the model tree; neither method worked.
Now I don't model in surfaces, but there have been purchased parts imported into Inventor that have in the past ended up as surfaces, and it's these parts that have the highlight. I haven't noticed anything like this in previous releases.
Has anyone else noticed this, found an explanation or a solution?
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Al
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved by pcrawley. Go to Solution.
In Application Options, on the Display tab, click the settings button. Have you checked these settings?
Can you post a part?
Try the hot-fix for IV2014
1. Make sure you are not in the Master View representation. If you are, create a new one. Call it what you want, Default or View1 should work.
2. Expand the Surface Bodies node and hover over the different surfaces. When you get to the one you want to turn off, right click and uncheck visibility.
Save the part.
In your assembly that this is used in, change the view rep to the part to whatever you called it (Default or View1).
Hi Jeff,
I typically set my application options to the 'shaded with edges' visual style. The model edges option was set to the default 'use part color'.
I changed the 'Model edges' radio button from part color to one color (black), and that got rid of the yellow.
I can't recall if I have modified this setting in the past or not...
Anyway, seems to work.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Al
So I installed the hotfix; no change with the yellow lines. Hopefully it fixes the other issues noted in the readme though...
karthur1, with regard to your fist comment, I don't want the surface to be completely invisible, I just want the yellow to be the part color. Or did I misread what you were describing?
With regard to your second comment, the yellow edges appear over seemingly any part color (although I haven't tried every single one).
I'm looking into posting a model somewhere.
Al
Can you post file
Here's a Dropbox link for the file I posted the screen shot of:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sk7sfvkggfaal69/Joystick%20Test.ipt?m
Comes into my system fine, I can do anything I want. Must be a local setting on you machine.
What you are seeing is normal with Edges visible using a surface model
I took a closer look into the file. There are some quality problems, lots of missing faces, and some internal faces without much sense.
Patching the whole stuff back to a real solid would take some time.
Walter
Walter Holzwarth
Al - I think what you are showing in your screenshot is exactly what it should look like. Yellow edges is the default color for surfaces when shown in a shaded-with-edges mode AND your Inventor color scheme (as indicated in Tools > App Options > Colors) is set to "Winter night". There are a few other color schemes where yellow is the default for surfaces. I suspect that if this colour is new to you, then you probably had a different colour scheme active in 2013.
Blair's screenshot is either shaded or realistic, but if he turns it to shaded with edges, he'll get yellow edges too because of his current color scheme.
The easy way to change if from yellow is to try a different colour scheme. (Remember to close all open Inventor doc's before switching colour schemes.) There is another way to change the color to something of your choosing, but it's unsupported and it'll change the color of your work-feature edges too (Work planes, points, axis etc.)
Thanks for posting your system spec's. I can see you're running Win 7, so follow these steps:
Changes in Color Scheme Editor do not take effect until you restart Inventor.
Hope this works for you!
Peter
Peter,
That makes sense. I'm thinking I'll just set the edge color default to black in application options and call it a day. I can't remember if I had explicitly done that before, but I seem to remember black edges rather than 'part colored' edges (as seems to be the default setting this release). Thanks for the info.
As for the model, it's only for visual purposes so no need to worry about all of the surface errors.
Thanks.
just go to view and select view without edge like realistic or other it work just fine