Any palette in PTC FlexPLM can have sub palettes. Sub palettes enable you to organize and control the palette components, especially the color content. The main palette is the parent palette for the sub palettes. Like palettes, you can assign sub palettes to one or more seasons.

Sub palettes have three components: material, material/color, and color. The sub palette includes unique associations to materials and material/colors from the library. The system can be configured to manage colors in the sub palettes. By default, PTC FlexPLM is set to limit sub palette color selection to colors in the parent palette. Companies that require more flexibility for sub palette color selection can work with their system administrators. The system can be configured so that sub palette color and material selections do not have a dependency on a parent palette. Depending on your business needs, sub palettes can be configured to automatically add colors and materials to the parent palette.

You can associate documents from the PTC FlexPLM library to a sub palette to further communicate palette direction.