Component colour cycling has been disabled temporarily

WyzeOwl · ‎10-15-2015

Can anyone tell me how to get past this "Component colour cycling has been disabled temporarily" issue? Just started working on a design that was started last week only to find today that the parts i am developing to add to the assembly are now going to be random funky colours. While trying to work around this with appearance and materials the coloration only lasts until i close the apearance or materials window. this has happened on two test sketches that i completed - the first one was lime green. the fact that the two drawings were completed in the same sequence yet produced varying colour results is odd. I expected the second to have the same lime green colouring.

the 2 screen shots show the differences. the blue sketch part is with the appearance window open and the coloring invoked on the part. the actual colour is the orange one below.

James.Youmatz · ‎10-16-2015

Hi @WyzeOwl,

So I guess my biggest question is are you purposely trying to seperate each component by color? My guess is that since you have Component Color Cycling toggled on, and you are trying to override it with an appearance, is why this error message is appearing. Again, I couldn't really tell from your post, but if you are trying to turn off Component Coloring (the weird funky colors), you can do this by going to the Inspect Menu and selecting Component Color Cycling and see if this answered your question.

Let me know if this answered your question!

Thanks,

James Youmatz
Product Insights Specialist for Fusion 360, Simulation, Generative Design

WyzeOwl · ‎10-16-2015

A pictue is worth a thousand words. Soon as I saw your post I could see what was confusing me. Thanks. being new to F360, I couldn't understand how or why the colouring had changed from what I was used to as grey to alternate colours. Lesson of the day is keep the cat off the keyboard.