topic Re: How to change drawing style outline for part in Inventor Forum

How to change drawing style outline for part

jcasey7460 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:14:39 GMT

....when placing a base view in my drawing, the base view shows the outline of the drawing in black (that's what I want to keep). But when I create a projected view it turns the outline of the drawing to a white color. How do I keep it all black? I assume this is under the styles editor, if so where? Under the the Styles Editor => Layers? If so, which one? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

I know about the Document > Tools > Sheet, that's how I changed my background to blue. But it only lets me change the background and outline...

Note, I'm having a tough time with the terminology so I attached/uploaded a video to explain what part of the style I am trying to change/keep.

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

jcasey7460 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:16:00 GMT

Also, I see that if you choose Select Part Priority from the quick access menu, then right-click, select Properties. You have a dialog box called Component Properties. Changing the layer color on the part level/layer does what I need. But of course, you have to do that every time so that's not usable...and I am not seeing a Component layer in the Styles editor so still looking for whatever style controls the part color, globally or for the entire drawing...FWIW, I know how to create my own styles so I don't screw up the default layers. 😛

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

jcasey7460 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:40:57 GMT

...just noticed that when I change the color of the sheet in Tools > Document Settings > Sheet tab > Colors > Sheet to a darker color it changes the "text" from black to white.

Where do you change this behavior at? I am not seeing it in the style editor.

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

CGBenner — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:03:37 GMT

@jcasey7460

Hi, Maybe you posted this and I missed it, but what version of Inventor is this? Is it 2021 with Dark Mode enabled?

If yes, go to Application Options and the Colors tab. Under "In-canvas Color Schemes" is a Customize button. Maybe what you are looking for is in there somewhere, depending on what scheme you're using.

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

imajar — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:04:12 GMT

Wow, just did some experimenting - that definitely has alot of problems!

I can see that inventor is somehow automatically changing some colors, I can not see anyway to control what it is doing. Things seem to print OK, but saving to PDF picks up the problems shown on the screen (for me anyway). Some lines types do change, others dont, some words do change, others don't - for example, my note text stays black (not visible against a black screen), but my template text does change. @johnsonshiue, could you weigh in on this one?

My recommendation would be to keep the default sheet color. (if you are trying to go easy on the eyes, I was able to change it to a lighter grey that didn't mess with anything.)

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

jcasey7460 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:19:22 GMT

Good idea, I think it's best to stick with default and just tweak the colors a bit. What I think I'll do is experiment with the darkest color I can get before it turns to white. 🙂

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

johnsonshiue — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:46:55 GMT

Hi Folks,

This does look like a bug to me. I cannot explain the behavior. It seems that the view edges color can no longer go back to By Layer after it was to something else. The only way to regain the By Layer color was to recreate the view.

I need to work with the project team to understand it better.

Many thanks!

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

LishuangLu — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:38:28 GMT

@jcasey7460 , thanks for reporting! There's indeed some intellegency in this area which is to make the view or annotations are still visible after changing the sheet color into some other color. If we don't provide this way, users will not see anything easily by default. However there may be some issues in the automtically handling. Like the ones reported by you, we will try to reproduce locally and make the fix during our defect fixing week.

For the issue mentioned by you “when I create a projected view it turns the outline of the drawing to a white color.”, I could not reproduce from scratch in my side yet. What I reproduce is drawing views will not update edge color when change the sheet color, eg. create 1 shaded base view and 1 projected view

Change the sheet color into black
The two views are still showing black edges
If do some edit, then undo the edit, the above two views will show white edges, so expect the two views in above steps can show white color. Please let me know if you have other suggestions.

As for the view color control, this actually can be adjusted from Style and Standard Editor -> Layer, the Visible (ISO) is used for controlling the view edge color. Please have a try and let me know whether it works for you.

Thanks for your support as always!

Regards,

-Lisa

Re: How to change drawing style outline for part

jcasey7460 — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:46:34 GMT

@LishuangLu Nice. The Style > Standard Editor -> Layer, Visible seems to solve the my issue so I'm happy. 🙂 Thank you!