Part Line Colours in Drawings.

[GavoGarmo]

It's possible to select a part in a view on a 2D drawing and change the colour of all the lines belonging to that part.

This is really useful, but is there a way of assigning a line colour to the .ipt file it's self, so that every time I place a veiw of that part the lines are automatically set to specified colour?

This would also be useful within a single drawing when there are multiple veiws of the same assembly. eg. PartA would always be drawn in Red, PartB would always be green. This would really help distinguishing between parts in complex assemblies. (Which I realise can be done manually but I think it could be done faster with less chance of making mistakes.) Currently, I colour all the parts, but then if I make an additional view, the new veiw is all in black.

Cheers

GavoGarmo 

[Anonymous]

Is there no one who nows the answer to the question above?

I'm dealing with the same issue.

[blair]

Not that I can think of.

You could color your parts in the model and then switch back and forth in the drawing to shaded to determine which parts you are working with.

If you change the color of the parts in the IAM, those color overrides stay in the IAM file and not with the part itself when you use them in other IAM's.