topic Re: Cut part turns red in Inventor Forum

Cut part turns red

Jam_Jumpin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:55:05 GMT

I used the cut command within an assembly and it made the cut parts turn red. How can I turn this indicator off?

Thanks

Inventor 2013

Re: Cut part turns red

cbenner — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:12:31 GMT

What do you mean the parts turned red? Can you post a screen shot or your files?

Re: Cut part turns red

Mark_Wigan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:13:05 GMT

wow...

i wonder has someone setup an iLogic rule in the file you are working on to force that behavior perhaps?

can you see the change on the ribbon menu showing the override / appearance?

Re: Cut part turns red

JDMather — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:25:35 GMT

1. are you sure you want to cut at assembly level (in most cases posted here the answer to that question is - No)

2. are you referring to the preview highlight (preview convention is green - add, red - subtract, blue - intersection, subtract only option available at assembly level)

3. is your part actually red when operation complete (as indicate - at least post screen shot if not actual assembly)

4. can you reproduce this behavior in a simple example assembly?

Re: Cut part turns red

Jam_Jumpin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:28:09 GMT

I've checked all the part colours and they are fine, none of them are red. I've changed the colour and then chosen clear override and it didn't fix it. THere's no ilogic because I'm the only person who can use that.

The red shows in the IDW drawing too.

I want to cut at assembly level because we don't want to go into so much detail of mitreing every part, they just cut it to fit in the factory.

Here's a screen shot.

Re: Cut part turns red

JDMather — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:46:33 GMT

#4 can you reproduce this behavior?

Assemble a box and cylinder and cut at assembly level.

I just tried and couldn't force the behavior without a lot of extra effort.

The only way I can think of forcing it is have the part red but the faces or bodies override some other color.

See attached.

Re: Cut part turns red

Mark_Wigan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:59:06 GMT

did you start with yor own templates?

if so can you zip them up and send them to us?

or, if you are allowed to can you do a packngo (even if you make a dumb down version of your assembly) and send it to us.

i would also like to see if there is any API code living inside any of the documents.

i can give you a confidential & secure dropbox link for just the 3 or 4 guys here now to access if you wish to keep off the main forumn.

cheers.

Re: Cut part turns red

Mark_Wigan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:24:01 GMT

jamjumpin i just zapped you a private message.

the dropbox link is shown therein.

feel free to pm it to the other guys if you wish to.

Re: Cut part turns red

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:03:30 GMT

Is any of the cut parts set to red color?

Re: Cut part turns red

Jam_Jumpin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:08:37 GMT

Thanks for all the messages, I just got a ton of work dumped on me so I won't get to look at this today.

I'll update later.

Re: Cut part turns red

Jam_Jumpin — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:31:51 GMT

I've got to the bottom of it.

Turns out that if you click the + next to the extrusion cut I did, it shows all the parts I cut through underneath.

Inventor had randomly picked a red paint swatch and painted all the cut items with it.

In the main window everything was still showing the correct colour under the appearance drop down so I couldn't work out why it was red.