Color Mapping

Table of Contents

• Priorities
• Mapping
• How to know the value of a bugged appearance

This information is available from Solidworks 2006 version.

Priorities

          Instance color > Face color > Feature color > Body color > Part color

Mapping

SOLIDWORKS Entity	Applied to DATAKIT Class	Remarks
Instance	Dtk_Component with InstanceComponentType
Prototype/Part	Dtk_Node containing Dtk_Body	Overwritten by Body color
Body	Dtk_Node containing Dtk_Body
Feature	Dtk_Face	Overwritten by Face color
Face	Dtk_Face

How to know the value of a bugged appearance

There is a bug inside Solidworks, where sometimes, when editing a appearance, it changes its value. This can be seen with the color changing on the body in the 3D rendered view.

For example, there is a feature colored in blue, but when entering the window to edit the corresponding appearance, the blue faces become grey. The main issue here, is that if we want to know what is exactly the RGB of this blue, we can't because it becomes grey when we try to edit it to see its value.

There is actually a way to know the value of this bugged appearance. It is to copy it. We can right-click "Copy Appearance", and then right-click "Paste Appearance" on any other feature. The copied appearance will not be bugged, so we can edit it to see its RGB value.