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Defining Colours
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Defining Colours
Jan 24, 2023 Engineering E3D Design E3D Design 3.1
Keywords
COLOUR ACTIVE CE VISIBLE CLASH OBST AIDS
Description
These commands allow colours to be defined so that different types of item in the display may be distinguished by means of colour.
Certain items such as current element and active element colours have default settings, but these may also be redefined.
The colours may be assigned by using the COLOUR command to define the Red-Green-Blue mix for a colour number or to assign a
predefined colour mix by name. MODEL allows the use of 115 user-definable colours, plus some specific ones which are assigned to
items which need to be readily distinguishable in the display.
Definitions
The Active element is the significant element (and its components) being worked on.
The Current Element (CE) is the actual element currently being accessed.
The Visible design consists of the design elements which is required to be displayed (but which the user is not currently working
on).
A Clashing element is an element whose current position and geometry are being tested for interferences against other
elements in the design and which has been found to clash (refer to Clash Detection for further information).
An Obstructing element is any of the elements in the design against which a clashing element is being tested for interferences
and which has been found to clash.
An Aid includes tags (markers), axes and other graphical annotations.
The predefined colour mixes which are specified by name are as follows:
Predefined Colour Mixes
black pink darkgreen beige
white salmon cyan wheat
whitesmoke orange turquoise tan
ivory brightorange aquamarine sandybrown
grey orangered blue brown
lightgrey maroon royalblue khaki
darkgrey yellow navyblue chocolate
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Predefined Colour Mixes
darkslate gold powderblue darkbrown
red lightyellow midnight blueviolet
brightred lightgold steelblue firebrick
coralred yellowgreen indigo darkorchid
tomato springgreen mauve dimgrey
plum green violet coral
deeppink forestgreen magenta indianred
lightblue limegreen mediumaquamarine sienna
slateblue
The default colour assignments are:
Colour No Colour
Filter Filter
Active design orange
Current element yellow
Visible design lightgrey
Clashing element red
Obstructing element tomato
Aids blue
1 grey
2 red
3 orange
4 yellow
5 green
6 cyan
7 blue
8 violet
9 brown
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Colour No Colour
10 white
11 pink
12 mauve
13 turquoise
14 indigo
15 black
16 magenta
Examples
COL 5 DARKGREEN Colour 5 will be changed to dark green
COL 3 MIX RED 50 GRE 50 BLU 5 Colour 3 will change to the specified mix of red, green and blue
COL ACTIVE BRIGHTRED Sets the colour for displaying active elements to bright red
Note:
When colours are mixed in their Red, Green and Blue constituents, the command line must contain values for all three constituents
in the correct order. The numbers entered for the relative proportions of the basic colours must each be in the range 0-100, but they
are not percentages of the overall colour and so do not need to add up to 100.
Command Syntax
>- COLour -+- integer -.
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|- ACTive --|
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|--AIDS-----|
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|- VISIble -|
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|- CE ------|
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|- CLASH ---|
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‘- OBST ----+-- colour_name --->
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‘-- MIX RED integer GREen integer BLUe integer ->
where colour_name is the name of any of the predefined colour mixes listed above.
Querying
>-- Q COLour --+-- integer -----.
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|-- CE ----------|
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|-- ACTive ------|
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|-- VISIble -----|
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|-- CLASH -------|
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|-- OBST --------|
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