Capability Question: Frame Generator and iLogic

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Been toying around with an idea to add an iLogic rule to improve our frame generation process, but I don't know if it's possible.

What I am doing:

When making large frames, I've been changing the color of components through design accelerator (ie. main support frame pieces are blue, walls are red, floors brown, supports orange, etc...). This serves 2 purposes, firstly I've got a lot easier time looking through the frame assembly, because when making heads and tails of a 300+ piece frame a bit of contrast does help. Secondly our fabricators love it because it makes it really easy for them to see on our drawings exactly what they're working with, along with being able to see some additional things at a glance (As an example, we might have an independent section that's colored different from everything else, so they know it's not directly part of the wall/floor/whatever, and if we were to do something like have 1/8 tubes through most of it but 3/16 as the main supports, the thicker ones are a darker color so they can read the drawings quickly as they know what to expect).

And on that same vein, when making the original part used as the skeleton, I split up sections into their own 2D/3D sketch, and apply the same color overrides their associated frame component would have.

The last added bonus is that by doing it in the main assembly for it, the color overrides aren't carried over to our main assemblies, as we insert the generated frame assembly instead of the construction assembly (Significantly less overhead in large assemblies, and ensures that the frame cannot be altered without opening up its original assembly)

What I want to do:

If I can access whatever reference the frame generator points each part to, I'd really like to make the frame coloring 'automatic', in that it will grab the sketch/line color and apply it to the frame components, and while I'm at it shift the color a bit dependent on thickness and material. My coloring method is great and all, but it's still manually done, has a lot of room for mistakes when the frame is being altered (Especially by someone else), and frankly it doesn't work as well when you don't know what the end result is and you have to make up the frame structure as you go.

Including a picture of the first frame I did this way, since it shows pretty much everything I'm talking about in it, and topics with pictures tend to get more replies