Problem keeping color applied to face in part-bug? Inv 2012

[gcross]

I just got a chance to use the new Part level View reps & discovered a problem keeping a color applied to a face.

I'm trying to create two masked paint conditions to show in IPN &  IDW views.

But everytime I change the part's face color via properties for View Rep 2, the other View Rep 1 that I had locked takes on the same color change also...not good.

The IPN views in the IDW based on this part show the same colors despite which view rep (1 or 2) has been selected using Edit View.

Is it that Part level View Reps do not fully support face color changes via properties? Or is this a bug?

Gary

Win 7 Pro / 12 GB RAM

i7 990 CPU

Quadro 4000 video

[Vlad.Makarov]

I have noticed this problem also.

[benyang.he]

Thanks for your feedback.

This is working as designed currently. Part level view only supports the color change of body now, and doesn't support that of face and feature. Would you please let me why do you need to different face colors for different views?

Thanks again,

Webber

[alessandro.gasso]

Hi Gary,

As Webber wrote and as you can see from the image below from the help, this is the designed behavior for R2012.

That said one possible workaround could be the other way around.

That is, you can apply the body color in one representation view and then, multiple select the faces where you don’t want to apply this color and, from the property, apply the color “As part”, as I did in the simple file attached.

This workaround works because the face color has the priority on the body color, as you can read in the article below.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/06/inventor-colors-and-priority.html

I hope you can find this workaround helpful.

Kind regards,

Alessandro

[gcross]

Benyang,

We often have to show parts with areas that get finished differently. The finisher must provide an overall finish to the part then mask off certain areas (faces or features) & finish them another color. The parts are used in the lighting industry where you have both reflective or decorative & black surfaces on the same part. The overall finish would be variable depending on what finish was ordered.

I was hopeful that this was possible when I first got the new 2012 release but apparentythe software is not there yet. I suspect it must be complex for the programmers. But it sure would be helpful to the end users. BTW- I would settle for faces if I had to choose between faces or features in addition to bodies/by part

Gary

[johnsonshiue]

Gary,

This particular behavior is not that intuitive, I have to admit. The issue here is that activating Design View is not supposed to dirty a document (try it in an assembly and a part; on closing the document after activating a DV, Inventor will not prompt you to save). However, coloring a face or feature in a part in general is treated as if changes happen to geometry (prompt to save on close). As a result, the behavior contradicts how DV works.

Thanks!

[tony]

I am just starting to use Inventor 2012 at my job. I was asked to build a sign which contained a white circle on an gray square. I am not sure how to do this.

By using a book I remembered the split tool. I sketched a circle inside the square then proceeded to use the split tool. I chose the split solid option. I split the circle from the square and change the body color of the circle to white and kept the rest of the square gray.

This has worked so far, it doesnt add any part to the BOM and it still has all the constraints as the other parts. Hope this helps.

Is there a better way of placing color shapes on parts? And by shapes i dont mean solids I mean just painting on a space of a part.

[SBix26]

When using the Split tool, use the Split Face option- no need to create separate solids.  Then change the color of the face(s).