topic Re: Color sketch in Fusion Support Forum

Color sketch

mac_ito — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:03:02 GMT

Hi,

On MacOs, when the river rubicon environment is activated it is sometimes difficult to see the sketches on light materials. It would be interesting to modify this either by giving the possibility of modifying the color of the sketches or by improving the contrast in this case (the idea of a dark background is to bring out light-colored pieces)

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Re: Color sketch

jhackney1972 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:14:07 GMT

If you are up to some easy application file changing, you can assign different sketch colors to most all your design entities. Below is the path (Windows) to the controlling file for the RiverRubicon environment and an Animated GIF showing the sketch color changed to a bright yellow. All you need is a simple text editor. Be sure you back up the file before altering in case you make a mistake.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:20:05 GMT

Hi, thanks but I'm on macos, do you have this access path for this operating system?

Re: Color sketch

jhackney1972 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:24:06 GMT

I do not have the exact path but I am sure it in a similar folder. Do a search for the shown XML file and see what you find.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:33:19 GMT

no, the architecture is not the same and access to this type of file is not possible on macos

Re: Color sketch

Phil.E — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:45:58 GMT

Right click on the dock icon, show in finder
Right click on the Fusion application icon, show contents.

The path to the xml is:

Users/[name]/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/webdeploy/production/[long alpha numeric code]/Autodesk Fusion 360.app/Contents/Libraries/Neutron/Neutron/Server/Scene/Resources/Environments

Re: Color sketch

ryan.bales — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:49:05 GMT

John is right and this is fully possible, the path is quite different on macOS but the xml is still there and editable all the same. The full path is long:

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/webdeploy/production/b0342c71c957b534dd1f17522ad0b16911522879/Autodesk Fusion 360.app/Contents/Libraries/Neutron/Neutron/Server/Scene/Resources/Environments/RiverRubicon

THe tricky part on mac is you have to 'show package contents:

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:15:40 GMT

Phil, " Users/[name]/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/webdeploy/release/[long alpha numeric code]/Autodesk Fusion 360.app/Contents/Libraries/Neutron/Neutron/Server/Scene/Resources/Environments " This path gives nothing. Ryan's on the other hand yes

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:18:35 GMT

@ryan.bales @Phil.E @jhackney1972

thank's

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:01:54 GMT

@jhackney1972 the request was for macos why approve your solution when it deals with windows?

Re: Color sketch

jhackney1972 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:06:39 GMT

You would have had no idea of the ability to modify the XML file and achieve what you desired was possible until I posted the possibility. The operating system is purely a side note to the solution.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:07:24 GMT

😂😂😂are you okay, you don't doubt anything? Of course I knew about xml files, it was even the support who told me about it in 2022 CaseNo:19091897, and I have already spoken about it on this forum, but until then no one other than Ryan had been able to give me the exact path on mac os.

Re: Color sketch

Phil.E — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:47:05 GMT

I corrected the path to point to "production" rather than a development build.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:29:32 GMT

@ryan.bales would you have an explanation on the rgb, argb and rgba code? I don't understand the associated code as seen in the capture. Thanks in advance.

Re: Color sketch

ryan.bales — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:40:12 GMT

I would, if i also understood it in full. Perhaps we can tag in someone that could explain it and is familiar. @Victoria.Studley or @lance.carocci could either of you shed light on the coloring inside the xml above?

Re: Color sketch

jhackney1972 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:12:14 GMT

This is what I believe the number mean:

A - This is the transparency value of the chosen color. A value of "1" would have no transparency and a value of "0" is completely transparent.
B - This is the percentage value, expressed as a decimal, of RED in the color chosen. RGB (Red, Green, Blue) colors are listed in tables with a value of 0 to 255 with 0 meaning the color segment is completely turned off and 255 meaning it is completely turned on. So if you want your color to contain all RED, you would place a "1" in this place. If you want it to have no RED, you would place a "0" in this place. If you want it to have half of the RED color you would place ".5" in this place.
C - This is the percentage value, expressed as a decimal, of GREEN in the color chosen. See the same explanation in "B" above.
D - This is the percentage value, expressed as a decimal, of BLUE in the color chosen. See the same explanation in "B" above.

So if you used a ARGB color number of "1 .5 .8 .2" it would be an opaque color consisting of .5 (127/255) of RED, .8 (319/255 Approx.) of GREEN and .2 (51/255) of BLUE.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:17:59 GMT

I should have specified it indeed but my real question is how do we calculate the RGB value 0 >255 in 0.85

Re: Color sketch

jhackney1972 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:24:14 GMT

It is shown in my post, for each primary color, it is a proportion of the color you want over 255. To get a value of approximately half RED input you would use .5 which comes from 127.5 / 255 RED color component.

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:33:06 GMT

ah ok thanks I had only understood that .5 and .8 were written without the 0 in front of the point

Re: Color sketch

mac_ito — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:42:24 GMT

@Victoria.Studley , @lance.carocci what interests me most is to know what these different labels correspond to

thx