

In an assembly, there is an additional top setting for PART COLOR IN THE ASSEMBLY. You will see a hierarchy from top to bottom of FACE, FEATURE, BODY and PART. ** To apply a color to a SKETCH, right-click the sketch and select “SKETCH COLOR.” You can also click in the Appearances column in the Display Pane next to the feature you want to set or change. To access the Appearance Menu, right-click on any face of a part and select the Appearances icon. This includes not only setting a part color in an assembly file different from the part color itself, but the assembly may also have a color setting that applies to ALL the parts within that assembly. Applying colors to parts and assemblies in SolidWorks is not a difficult task, but one must be aware of the many levels at which color can be applied as well as what feature colors ‘overrule’ one another.Ĭolors can be applied to a part as a whole, or to many items within that part including FACES, FEATURES, BODIES and SKETCHES.Ī part set to a specific color can also be overridden by the color setting for that part in any top level assembly that contains that part.
