Inventor Colors and Priority Order

In Inventor, we have several types of colors

Instance color—assigned on the components in assembly environment.

 

Face Color—assigned on Face directly: right click on one face, choose Properties and then you can change it.

 
 

Feature Color—assigned on Inventor feature directly: right click on one feature, choose Properties and then you can change it.

Note: one feature contains several faces.

 

Body Color—assigned on body directly: right click on one body, choose Properties and then you can change it.

Note: one body may contain several features.

 

Part Color—assigned on the whole part directly: choose the color settings directly.

Note: one part may contain several bodies.

 

The priority order is the following:

1. Instance color
2. Face color
3. Feature color
4. Body color
5. Part color

That is, if you have face color and body color assigned on one body, the body will present the face color for the specific faces, while others unassigned will present the body color.

In the image below, Red is face color, Blue is feature color and Brown is body color.

 

Ale

Comments

[Scott Moyse]

Please don't forget the priority can also Annoyingly come from the source model if the part is derived! Unless you edit the derived node of each individual part after you have derived it and untick the 'Use colors from source component'. This tick box is greyed out the first time you derive, and isn't available from the make components user interface.

[Ale]

Hi Scott,
This is a good point.
By the way, the one you describe is not the designed behavior, and our development is working to fix it, as you know since you got already in contact with Product Support.
Kind regards,
Ale

[Scott]

;-)

[kernel]

Antes pensaba de otro modo, agradezco por la ayuda en esta pregunta.


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