Color on Drawings, not components - Complex Assembly

[robbieYF29S]

Is there any way to add color on the drawing but not the component? We want to have different colors on different drawing pages based on which level of the assembly we're looking at. To do this we would need to be assigning the colors on the drawing level, not on the component level.

We have a complex product with multiple layers of sub assemblies. The drawings for the machine are around 80 pages. With how Fusion colors everything now, our model and drawings look like an 80s themed kaleidoscope. The top level assembly is around 100 different colors. The top level assembly has three sub assemblies, so it should only be three colors. When don't want to break out the individual colors on the sub assemblies until we're actually looking at the sub assembly drawing. I don't really care what color the model itself is, this is only for the drawings. 

If it's not something we can already do, is this something we could hire a programmer to do via the API? Not sure what the options fusion has in terms of code customizations. 

[g-andresen]

hi,

try it like this:
1. output as DXF or DWG
2. open and edit in other application (ACAD, QCAD ....)

günther

[jhackney1972]

I cannot do the color change by sub-assembly in the drawing but it is a very quick process in the model and this in turn goes directly to the drawing.  You say there are only 3-4 sub-assemblies and you can Isolate them quickly and assign a group appearance that goes to the drawing with Shaded views.  You Fusion 360 Browser is the key to accomplishing this process which I assume you have managed well and the 3-4 sub-assembles are on top and labeled well.  Take a look at the Screencast

[robbieYF29S]

Thanks for the answers! But just to clarify, there are 3-4 sub-assemblies on the top-level assembly. However, there are 23 sub-assemblies in total on 5 different levels with a few hundred components. This is a pretty complex machine with a 5 level nested BOM. I'm not just concerned with the top level, I'm talking about all the levels.


So if I'm looking at the top-level assembly, I want to see three different colors for the three different sub-assemblies directly below it. If I'm looking at sub-assembly #1 (one level down), I will see colors on the 7 sub-sub-assemblies (2 levels down) that make up sub-assembly #1.



I only want to see colors on the items that are one single level down from the assembly that I'm looking at. Right now it's putting colors on the assembly 5 levels down, which is way to much information.


Does that make sense?

[jhackney1972]

The process I outlined is the same for any combination you choose to create.  Try it for yourself on your assembly, if it works for you, keep it, if not, look at another method proposed by others.