System Colours, Special Colours
Drawing > Others > Colour Editor 
So-called System colours are - like the Drawing colours - edge and surface colours with various optical properties. In contrast to the Drawing colours, however, they are not saved with the drawing, but are loaded according to the current system settings. This means that they may differ when using the same file on various computers.
Special colours are the colours used for special elements on the screen, e.g. the cursor or the different object markings.
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Special colour |
RGB colour |
Used for |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Background colour |
|
0 / 0 / 0 |
Preset background colour for CTRL+C, the creation of EMF files, etc. |
|
Marking 1 |
|
222 / 12 / 43 |
Mouseover colour, e.g. objects under the cursor in the drawing area |
|
Marking 2 |
|
152 / 176 / 255 |
Selected surfaces, e.g. distance in HCM between two selected surfaces or parallelism between surface and coordinate plane Points to be moved during dynamic route change in Plant Engineering Holes outside the processing area for hole patterns |
|
Marking 3 |
|
22 / 159 / 211 |
Multiple selection of parts, e.g. in dialogues with parts lists |
|
Marking 4 |
|
160 / 160 / 160 |
grey (Special colour Marking 4). The grey sections are unchangeable in their extension |
|
Marking 5 |
|
253 / 75 / 0 |
Geometry for an activated feature step in the model drawing |
|
Marking 6 |
|
16 / 217 /239 |
Mouseover colour, e.g. marking of a 3-D dimension or the sub-parts of an assembly (also flanges of a sheet metal part) |
|
Grid |
|
0 / 0 / 0 |
e.g. display of the fixed points for the dynamic route change and the down-grade symbol in Plant Engineering |
|
reserved |
|
0 / 0 / 255 |
|
|
Cursor |
|
0 / 0 / 0 |
Colour of the cursor |
|
X-axis |
|
255 / 0 / 0 |
Colour of the X-axis in the coordinate system display |
|
Y-axis |
|
0 / 255 / 0 |
Colour of the Y-axis in the coordinate system display |
|
Z-axis |
|
0 / 0 / 255 |
Colour of the Z-axis in the coordinate system display |
|
Reduced intensity |
|
160 / 160 / 160 |
e.g. for the connection info in Plant Engineering |
|
Preview |
|
30 / 135 / 155 |
e.g. when creating parts before placing them in the model drawing |
Use the appropriate tabs to specify the settings for System colours and Special colours. On the Object colours tab you can expand or collapse the display of all current Drawing colours or System colours using the 
and 
icons.
System colours and Special colours can be saved as FRD files for a later re-use. The default settings for System colours and Special colours are defined in the WorkstationColors.FRD file. When loading a drawing for the first time or when creating a new drawing (as of Version 2008), the System colours and Special colours defined in this file will be used.
The WorkstationColors.FRD file is located in the directory C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\ISD Software und Systeme\ISD 20xx\Material. (you can also access this folder by entering %AppData%\ISD Software und Systeme\ISD nnnn\Material in the address bar of the Windows Explorer and pressing the ENTER key (nnnn = Version number).
The ISD default settings are stored in the WorkstationColorsDefault.frd file.
Change System colours/Special colours
- To change a System colour, activate the Object colours tab and click the . icon to expand the System colour selection display. If you want to change a Special colour, activate the Special colours tab accordingly. To change the name of a colour, double-click the required colour item and enter the new name.
- Now specify the settings under Optical properties and Colour.
- After having specified your settings, you have the following options:
- Exit the Colour Editor with OK. In this case, the current settings for System colours/Special colours will be used for all currently loaded drawings. Furthermore, they will be the default settings for all drawings which are processed during the current HiCAD session. When exiting HiCAD, however, these colour changes will not be saved.
- Save the current System/Special colours for a later re-use. Use the functions provided by the System/Special colours menu for this purpose.
Manage System colours/Special colours
To load or save a colour file with System/Special colours, click the System/Special colours item on the menu bar of the Colour Editor and select Save. The current system/special colours will be saved to the WORKSTATIONCOLORS.FRD file in the HiCAD SYS directory.
