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Hello everybody,

I'm new here and I can't write german, but I can read and understand it. So I hope someone can help me with my problem.

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Is it possible to program the color of a part. I have made a catalog with several parts to choose from, but despite all part free to choose, not all are prefered.

I made a Part  and among several other parameters I also made a parameter "prefered" with the options "YES/NO". I then used a design table with the parameters to make several standard parts. It could look somehow like this:

PartNumber-Length-height-prefered
a-10-20-YES
b-10-21-NO
c-10-22-YES

Despited the fact that part b is an existing option I still want to see in an instants that this non prefered part is used in a product. So is it possible, depending the status of colum "prefered" being "YES" or "NO" to give the part a grey or lets say an orange color?

Greetings Frank

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Frank,

unfortunately, feature colors in CATIA V5 are not parameters but so-called visualization properties. This is why you will not be able to get any colors driven by a parameter directly.

Using CATIA V5 macro language, however, you will be able to change feature colors by changing the "prefered" parameter. All you have to do is creating a transient linkage between the parameter and your featureŽs visualization properties.

The first necessary step will be to identify the feature or part the color of which to control. This can be done using a unique feature name for example. Then put the feature into a selection. This selection has a property called vispropertyset which lets you control the selected featuresŽ colors.

If you put this code into a reaction (KWA) you can trigger this action by the assigned parameter changing.

Hope that helps,

Michael

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