The Options menu > Colors command allows you to set the colors of various items both for display on the screen and for output to a printer. Clicking this command brings up the Assign Display Colors form. The following bullet items explain the areas in that form.
Click to Change Color: In this area you can left click on any of the color boxes to change the display color for the associated item. Following is a list of items for which you can change the display color.
Reinforcing: This controls the color of the rebar. It applies to the rebar in reinforcing shapes and to the rebar associated with geometric shapes.
XY Axes: This controls the color of the Section Designer X and Y axes.
Guide Lines: This controls the color of the background guidelines. Note that you can also toggle these guidelines on and off using the View menu > Show Guide Lines command.
Local Axes: This controls the color of the section local 2 and 3 axes.
Reference Lines: This controls the color of reference lines and circles. It also controls the color of the line associated with line pattern reinforcing shapes and the color of the bounding line associated with rectangular and circular reinforcing shapes.
Background: This is the background color of the Section Designer window. The outline of geometric shapes (I-sections, rectangles, etc.,) is always displayed in the color that is opposite of the background color. The background item does not control the background color of the display windows for the interaction surface and the moment curvature curve. These background colors can not be changed.
Device Type: Here you indicate whether the colors you are specifying are for screen display, output to a non-color printer or output to a color printer. Note that you can specify different display colors for each of these three device types.
Reset Defaults button: This button resets the colors to the built-in default colors. The Reset Defaults button not only resets the colors for the currently chosen device type, it resets the colors for all three device types, regardless of which one is currently chosen.
The fill color for geometric shapes (I-sections, rectangles, etc.,) is set in the shape properties and is not controlled in any way by these options.
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