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Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

bengee5454 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:52:07 GMT

A simple one (hopefully). When working on a drawing, if I want to project the edges of a model in a sketch, the lines are a yellow colour.

This is not very helpful as the background is off-white which makes the lines very hard to see!

How can i change the colour of projected lines?

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

ThomasB44 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:24:57 GMT

Hi @bengee5454

The color of this line is linked to your application settings / colors.

Just change the colors model here :

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

bengee5454 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:48:48 GMT

Thanks Thomas,

I had tried that but the projected lines still come out yellow

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

Roelof.Feijen — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:49:33 GMT

And if you really want to create your own Color Scheme, install the usertools from the

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\SDK folder

and after that run the InventorColorSchemeEditor application from the

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\SDK\UserTools\ColorSchemeEditor\Bin folder

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

ThomasB44 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:56:03 GMT

Have you manually changed the color of the line ?

The color of your line is set to "by layer" ?

If you change the colors model in application settings, the default colors of projected lines must change.

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

bengee5454 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:05:08 GMT

I have not manually changed the colour

the colour is set to by layer

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

ThomasB44 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:45:32 GMT

That is really strange, I can't figure out how this happen.

Can you share an example of your files ?

Perhaps someone else will find an issue.

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

bengee5454 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:29:46 GMT

Here are the files.....any help would be much appreciated

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:15:18 GMT

@Anonymous.gee wrote:

... When working on a drawing, if I want to project the edges of a model in a sketch, ... as the background is off-white .

Can you post screen shot of your Application Options settings for Drafting?

(I show arrow to the Design Color Scheme in this image, but I am interested in the Drafting environment.)

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

Roelof.Feijen — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:03:45 GMT

Your drawing is not an issue. Works fine in Inventor 2017.3

See my screencast

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

bengee5454 — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:36:18 GMT

Thank you

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

qamar.naseem6EVRX — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:00:46 GMT

This seems to work prior to Inventor 2022, but could you try this in IV 2022. I have millenium background as choice for Design display., when creating a sketch in a drawing, lines still remain yellow, even when other color schemes are used.

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

DRudaz — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:43:44 GMT

Hi,

For me this is a bug of version 2022 because on previous versions it worked. Normally it is the color of the reference curve that manages this color in the color scheme.

I have found a workaround to this problem. After having projected the geometry I select all the elements and I go to Format and I change the color of according "to layer" to the color of my choice. Or you can make this operation before project the gemetry.

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

johnsonshiue — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:44:41 GMT

Hi Folks,

I am sorry I am a bit confused here. The In-Canvas Color Scheme has pre-defined object colors. You can change it in the Color Scheme editor to persist. Is it not working? I am not sure why you need to change the sketch curves color format.

Many thanks!

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

DRudaz — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:39:31 GMT

Hi Johnson,

Quite simply because the lines in yellow are not visible correctly. And in version 2022 we cannot change it.

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

johnsonshiue — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:13:31 GMT

Hi Dominique,

If possible, do you mind sharing a video or screencast showing the behavior? I am not able to reproduce it on my machine. Please make sure graphics driver is updated and all critical Windows updates are installed.

Many thanks!

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

DRudaz — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:36:48 GMT

Hi Johnson,

here is the screancast

Screancast

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

johnsonshiue — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:56:14 GMT

Hi Dominique,

Many thanks for sharing the video! I got better understanding now. It is about the drawing sketch line color. It does look like a bug. I will work with the project team to understand it better.

Thanks again!

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

johnsonshiue — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 23:16:38 GMT

Hi! This has been reported as INVGEN-54411.

Many thanks!

Re: Change projected line colour - drawing sketch

MJH_ — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:45:52 GMT

Hi Johnson, is there an ETA on when this bug fix will be available? I've just stumbled across this issue myself.