Unable To Change Appearance For A New Body

[MaxHugen]

Since creating one new component - a surface body - on a new laptop and F360 installation, I can't change the Appearance of it.

Other bodies appear to be OK, so I don't know why this one can't be changed.

Is there any way to fix this issue?

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

I have no issues changing the appearance of the indicated surface body.  You may try right clicking on yours and select Remove Appearance Override then try to add an appearance.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Surfaces have only one side for applying appearances.

You can simply change normal/inverted or select "appearance override" as  @jhackney1972  recommended.

günther

[jeff_strater]

you can disable this behavior by checking this preference:

[MaxHugen]

Hi Jeff, that check box was already unchecked, must be the default.

Some weird behaviour. When I opened the version today, the body was now the Appearance colour I had unsuccessfully tried to assign to it! And changing it was AOK.

The gremlins were busy yesterday, I was getting the Browser "blackout" a bit, sometimes the right-mouse click for context menus wouldn't work, and the View Cube / Home wasn't working. At such stages I usually Save, which sometimes seems to "fix" things, &/or Close F360 and re-open.

Anyway, all good now.

Cheers, Max

[MaxHugen]

Thanks John, will bear that in mind.

[MaxHugen]

Thanks Günther, seems I had gremlins, all is AOK today!

[MaxHugen]

Somehow, even after changing the Appearance when I opened the project, this body "reverted" to being unchangeable, without my doing anything. Go figure! Then I noticed that in fact it *was* changing, but underneath!

Should have paid more attention initially to your advice about using Modify > Reverse Normal! 🙂