Changing Colours of Surfaces

[candv]

I want to change the colour of surfaces in my models

Can it be done ?

If so how ?

[Anonymous]

You can change the color of your extrusion for example by RMB the extrusion. Select properties and then you can change your feature color.

[candv]

No I get surface models from car manufacturers, the surface comes in but it has a default colour of yellow, transparent or not. I want to change the colour of the imported surface

[Anonymous]

And by clicking the colorbox on the standard toolbar and then changing the color?

[Anonymous]

You can't (unfortunately)

Rory

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No
I get surface models from car manufacturers, the surface comes in but it has a
default colour of yellow, transparent or not. I want to change the colour of
the imported surface

[Anonymous]

Select the surface in the browser and RMB
properties.

Kathy Johnson

[Anonymous]

Kathy,

If you can change the color of a surface, you must
be working with IV8! 🙂

Try this:

1) Extrude a line (it will become a
surface)

2) RMB on surface in browser --> You can NOT
change color...

Cheers!

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Select the surface in the browser and RMB
properties.

Kathy
Johnson

[Anonymous]

My mistake.  I did not see it greyed
out.

Kathy Johnson

[Anonymous]

Surfaces are considered construction geometry in Inventor ipt and do not show up in idw. You can RMB on the surface in the browser and uncheck transparency which will make the suface more visable. The thinking behind not allowing the change of color of surfaces is that users might not ever continue to a solid model with their design once they have a "pretty picture" and thus the same problem you have, surfaces from another software that are difficult to use, rather than a solid model which is easy to edit and document.

[Anonymous]

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I should have noted that this is my opinion, I don't really know what the developers were thinking...