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Define color conversion settings
You can define settings for conversion of existing colors, and view information about the colors of all elements in an Annotation drawing using the Color Conversion dialog box.
To open the Color Conversion dialog box, click File > Settings > Color Conversion.
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Color Conversion is active only if you open a drawing or if you create a drawing.
The color information table of the Color Conversion dialog box consists of the following columns:
Seq: Sequence number of a color in the table.
Source Color: Color present in the drawing. If the Target Color column is empty, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling displays the drawing in original colors.
Target Color: A color to map the source color to, if required.
Count: Number of elements in the drawing that have the source color.
The standard colors in a drawing are represented by their names in the color information table.
You can save your source-to-target color preferences in a map file after you have defined the target colors in the Color Conversion dialog box. The source-to-target color mapping is stored in a text file. The colors are stored as RGB values.
You can also load a map file which contains predefined or user-defined source-to-target mapping of colors to convert the colors of a drawing.
To change the color of existing elements in a drawing to another color,
1. Click File > Settings > Color Conversion.
2. In the color information table, double-click the Target Color row for the Source Color cell which you want to change. The Color Selector dialog box opens.
3. Select the color in the Color Selector dialog box.
4. Click . The selected color is displayed in the Target Color cell of the color information table.
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To remove a target color, right-click the required Target Color row in the color information table and select Clear.
To remove all target colors, right-click the color information table and select Clear All.
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If there are duplicate source or target colors in the source-to-target color mapping, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling displays a warning if any of the following situations occur:
If you define the same color as a source and a target color and the source color instance has no target color mapped to it. For example, if blue is the source color (not mapped to a target color), and the same blue color is defined as the target color for the green source color.
If you define the same color as a target color more than once.
In addition, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling displays the sequence number of the duplicate colors in a bold orange color (RGB 255 128 0) in the color information table.
5. Optionally, click Preview to preview the drawing in the target colors.
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During the redraw process, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling executes the Box Size settings defined in Redraw section of the Default Settings browser (table). As a result, the drawing elements that are smaller than a specified amount of pixels are drawn as a box only. This may display a large number of drawing elements as boxes. To avoid this situation, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling disables Box Size settings when you open the Color Conversion dialog box. When you close the Color Conversion dialog box, the default settings of Box Size are restored.
6. Click OK in the Color Conversion dialog box.
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If you click Clear All, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling removes the target colors in the Target Color column of the color information table. Also, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling removes rows that contain color count as 0 (zero).
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling checks the color mapping when you open the Color Conversion dialog box, and after you select the target colors. An error message is displayed if Creo Elements/Direct Modeling finds duplicate source or target colors in the source-to-target color mapping.
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling supports Undo and Redo for color conversion.
To store a color conversion map file,
1. Click File > Settings > Color Conversion. The Color Conversion dialog box opens.
2. Define the target colors in the Target Color column of the color information table.
3. Click Store. The File Browser dialog box opens.
4. Specify the path and the file name, and save the file.
To load a color conversion map file,
1. Click File > Settings > Color Conversion. The Color Conversion dialog box opens.
2. In the Preset box, select one of the following:
None
This is the default. No color map is loaded.
CoCreate to Creo (predefined color map)
Creo to CoCreate (predefined color map)
3. To load a user-defined source-to-target color map file, select User defined in the Preset box and select the map file in the Open dialog box.
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If there are duplicate source or target colors in the source-to-target color mapping, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling displays a warning.
4. Optionally, click Preview to preview the drawing in the selected color map.
5. Click OK.
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If a source color which is defined in the map file is present in the drawing, the corresponding target color is set in the Target Color column of the color information table.
If a source color which is defined in the map file is absent in the drawing, a row (containing the color information) is added to the color information table and the count is set to 0 (zero).