Different colors for different parts in a drawing sheet?

Hello All,

Sorry for the stupid question, but I don't a whole lot of drawings. I would like to show a cross-section and show the different parts using thier own (or others) colors. Is this possible?

TIA, Muggs

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Yup it's possible

Just set up layers in the drawing file and change parts to different layers with differing colours. Note there is a bug or was a bug, if you do a detail view of a section view the colours don't match the section view (random colours) I have an SPR for this. SolidWorks came back saying it's fixed in SWX 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think they plan on fixing it at all in SWX2005

But if you don't need details of sections it should work just fine.

Regards

John Layne

Thanks John! That will do what I need.

Muggs

"John Layne"

Shaded views will work as well. At least you won't have to manually set up the layers. I think that there was a macro at

Ken

Matt's got a 'Colorize' macro that will random change parts in assy's to random colors... I haven't tried it.