I received a file (mold design) that is fortunately color coded correctly, each type of component has a different color, the designer did a great job.
I was to use this attribute in order to be able to organize quickly all the different types of components into Selection Sets or any other "Quick Selection" group / folder etc. so I can later on change the colors, quickly animate, hide/show etc.
I don't think there is an automated function to help you with that in Fusion 360. This will be a manual effort.
I scratched my head on this all day today. You can get tantalizingly close, but not quite.
In the appearance command, if you right click on an appearance, there is a menu item "Select Objects Applied To" that will select everything in that color. But, sadly, the selection is cleared when you cancel the command. I had hoped to be able to keep the selection, then turn around and create a selection set, but no...
The best you can do that I can think of is to take a screenshot of the components and go back and manually select them again.
You might be able to do this with the API, but I'm not sure. @ekinsb?
Jeff
I started to write a little add-in to do this but have run into a bug in the API. Depending on how the appearances were set up it might not be a problem in this particular case. The problem is that the API currently is not working correctly if you created a new appearance by copying an editing an existing appearance, which I believe is the only way to create a new appearance. So I'm guessing you'll run into the same problem with your design. I've logged a bug and hopefully we can fix it soon.
