Lost some of the colors on a component

[espenrs]

After some time designing geometry around a component I noticed most of the colors where gone. Very annoying because I like the colors. The component was copied from one design and "paste as new" into my new design.

Anyway. I have absolutely no idea when or what caused this. Any idea how to fix it? I have tried replacing it in various ways but it gives so many errors and trying to correct them just makes everything even worse.

I'm hoping for some "you probably did this, just right click and...", but if that isn't the case I will just recreate the entire thing.

[jeff_strater]

hard to say without the original design.  However, one possibility:  If the colors were applied at the assembly level in the original design, they are considered "overrides", and will not carry over with a Paste New.  But, that is just a guess

[espenrs]

The PCB that still have a color is made by me natively in Fusion 360. All other components are imported from step and stp files.

If I'm not mistaken, the pin heads (which looks like still have their colors) are imported as step files and is built up of multiple components/bodies. The other components however, are imported as stp files and are all a single body.

But I am very sure that all colors was there after using "paste new", and that the colors went missing sometime during the design. I went back and forth trying to figure out how-to so it's impossible to pinpoint what could have done it.

I am, however, going to start over when I get the time as I thought of different approaches to my goal so either way this will be my solution. I will try to notice if this happens again 🙂

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@espenrs wrote:

I'm hoping for some "you probably did this…

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@espenrs 

My guess is that you probably did a Join in an operation.

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?