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Add Option to Completely Disable Shadows in Drawing View (for Clear White Parts)

Add Option to Completely Disable Shadows in Drawing View (for Clear White Parts)

Idea Summary:
In Inventor drawing views, it should be possible to fully disable shadows. This would help keep white-colored parts truly white, especially for printed output where white is used to make components stand out clearly.

 

Full Explanation:
When creating 2D drawings of assemblies, I sometimes use color to highlight new parts that need to be added to an existing setup. For contrast, I leave the existing parts in plain white — since on paper, white areas appear uncolored and help focus attention on the colored parts.

Currently, the only way to do this is by creating a View Representation where I manually set the parts to white. However, shadows are sometimes still applied during drawing updates, which causes those white parts to appear gray or shaded. This reduces the clarity of the drawing, especially in prints.

It would be very useful to have a toggle in the drawing view settings that fully disables all shadows — either globally for the view, or for selected parts. This would allow true white to stay white, improve print quality, and give better visual contrast for highlighted components.

I've added two example images:

  1. The part shown in clean white (as intended).

  2. The same part appearing gray after update due to shadowing.

 

1 Comment
peter.roman
Advocate

There is a workaround by using an appearance with self-illumination, and turning up the luminosity and turning off transparency if needed.

I'm not sure if you can actually get pure white, it seems to cap out at 99% white when I try to measure it.

 

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