. The Colours area on the Options dialog box allows you to set the colours used to draw different entities in the Graphics window. Display colours can be set for each individual model. Models with non-standard colours stored have a red spot on their lamp icons .
You can select the models for which you want to change the entity colours using the Change colours... list box at the top of the window:
Note: You can also use this option to set all the models back to their default colours, setting them individually back.
When you have selected the models for which you want to change the entity colours, you can use the options in the Colours sub-menu options to change the colours for the entities listed. The colour changes are applied to the entities you specified.
All Colours
The functionality available here is useful if you want to utilise different colour schemes for different types of work.
Import Colour Scheme - loads a colour scheme from a file. This displays the Import Colour Scheme dialog box, which works in the same way as all Windows™ Open dialog boxes.
Export Colour Scheme - saves the current colour scheme. This displays the Export Colour Scheme dialog box, which works in the same way as all windows Save dialog boxes. All files are saved as *.mac Colour Table files. This can be useful if you need different colour schemes for different projects.
- contains a list of commonly used background colour schemes. Selecting one from the pull-down list and then clicking on Set as Default will use that as the default background colour.
Light Graduated - the new default colour scheme.
Dark Graduated - the colour scheme used in previous versions.
Black Background - black background colour.
White Background - white background colour.
Custom - uses your colour scheme.
Set as Default - sets the current colour scheme as the default colour scheme.
Reset All - resets the colours to the colour scheme when you started CopyCAD.
Most of the remaining items in the Colours list show a dialog box similar to the Point dialog box, which is described in detail in Colours - Point.
