Re-roll a single colour for Component Colour Cycling Toggle

[Careless_]

This happens all too often; I get two components in an assembly that have colours that are way too close to one another.

It would be great if we could right click on the colour strip and "Regenerate Random Color" so that it will cycle through random colours whenever it's clicked, allowing the user to hit it one or two times to find a colour that suits the design better to avoid confusion.

[Anonymous]

Another way to solve this would be to have an actual Cycling function, sometimes if you have many components you will get 2 adjacent components with the same color, which defeats the purpose somehow, it would be great if there was an option to "re-shuffle" the colors, to avoid 2 adjacent components having the same color.

[Careless_]

I'm glad you agree. Just to clarify, though; this is exactly the suggestion I proposed and is no different from what you are saying as an alternative solution... 

• "It would be great if we could right click on the colour strip and "Regenerate Random Color" so that it will cycle through random colours whenever it's clicked, allowing the user to hit it one or two times to find a colour that suits the design better to avoid confusion."

Or perhaps I have misunderstood. You're proposing shuffling all colours at once? I think that is also a desireable feature but that does not guarantee that another pair of items may not end up sharing similar colours again.

At some point in a design assembly, there would be a tipping point where there are far too many items for the colours to be distinguishable, so perhaps an entirely new way of scheming the colours within a design might be necessary.

Maybe if there are say... 10 parent components each with 5 child components, in the main assembly view (unisolated), the child components could share the colour of their parent. And then a "colour isolation" option could enable/disable individual child component colour. This would be friendly to the user, as they do not have to isolate the parent component to see the individual child component colours. They just need to toggle it on/off.

Kind of like a "colour heirarchy".

Then re-rolling an entire file becomes less necessary, as one could just re-roll the parent component if it's too close to another- and then re-roll child components within if they clash with other objects in the same sub-component tree.