Feature Hole Colour

[evo80]

Good Day,

Does anyone know why my holes are not colouring the same as the model colour, in fact when I edit the colour in the feature set properties the colour edit fails also.

[icse]

That's interesting. There is a very recent topic where someone was unable to edit the color of a featureset with that command

edit featureset ; colour 1 1 1

Which normally should work. Both the command and the automatic color detection work completely fine on my end.

Maybe it's some kind of hardware issue or a graphics driver setting? Can you test it on another PC or upload the project?

What hardware do you use and wich version of PowerMill?

[evo80]

I'm using,

Autodesk PowerMill Ultimate 2027
Version: 2027.0.0.2027004
Build Date: Fri Mar 20 16:08:54 UTC 2026
Status: Full Release

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz (3.60 GHz)
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)
Graphics card NVIDIA Quadro P4000 (8 GB)
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

[evo80]

Ok, So use model colour for holes was unchecked, all is now fine.

However I have noticed something which seems to be unique to PM2027, when I click on a surface patch it fails to select, random patches select instead . This isn't the case with PM2026, anyone else noticing this with PM2027?

[icse]

That's odd... i can't reproduce the error. I use the exact same PowerMill version. Latest Drivers installed. Ryzen 7 5800, RTX3070.

Do you get any error message? Or does just the color not apply to the featureset?

[evo80]

@icse , see my message 4, the "Use model colour for holes" checkbox was unchecked, when checked the hole featureset behaves correctly.  

[icse]

oh trough you had that checked😅

but anyway this command should have worked to change the color of the featureset regardless if the option is checked or not:

edit featureset ; colour 1 1 1

[evo80]

You're right, I just unchecked "Use model colour for holes" to check and now the holes colour correctly when I edit the colour, that is proper weird because it failed before or maybe I'm going mad! 🤔

[icse]

Theres a bug for sure... For me its now the other way around, no matter what settings i use my holes always get the model color😂

[lauri_barnhart]

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[lauri_barnhart]

Hello, @evo80,

We are sorry to hear that you are still experiencing issues. We would like to suggest contacting Support for further assistance. They can help determine a possible workaround or if this is a bug, it can be reported to the appropriate team for triaging. You can always use the Autodesk Assistant on the support page to find answers or contact support.

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