Change Color

The color can be changed in netfabb for parts, slices and many other objects and all kinds of visualizations. They are always changed in a dialog box, which provides every shade of every color of the whole spectrum. For parts and slices, the color can be changed via the context menu or the menu bar. Other colorations are changed via dialog boxes or in the settings.

In the dialog box for changing the color you have several options: Firstly, you can click on a basic color. These are part of the installation of the software. Secondly, you can click anywhere on the spectrum to the right and the respective color is chosen. Then, you can alter the brightness in a bar to the right. That way, any color can be created. If the brightness is at the top or bottom of the bar, the color will always be white or black.

Below the spectrum, in the field Color|Solid, the color you have chosen is displayed. Next to that field, values of the hue, the saturation, the lumination and the intensity of red, green and blue are specified. The values are adjusted automatically when you change the color, but you can also change the color here by manually entering new values. The change of color is confirmed, when you click "OK".

To create user-defined colors, click on one of the custom colors. After installation, these are all black. Then, choose a color in the spectrum and define its brightness. Finally, click on "Add to Custom Colors" to insert the color into the custom color field you have selected.

In the settings, you can edit the default settings for every kind of coloration by double-clicking on the respective color. This includes the background in the viewing screen, the platform, collisions, cuts, the planes and origin of the coordinate system, the color of selected parts and of backfaces, the coloration of parts during Boolean operations, the default colors for added parts, the preview and backface colors for the File Preview Browser and the iPhone part and backface color.

In the Slice Commander settings, the colors for the background and the default colors for added slices in general can be set.

In the Part Repair settings, you can change the color for the outside and inside of both unselected and selected faces, of boundary edges, degenerate faces, self-intersections, double surfaces, edges, the triangle mesh, as well as the preview of a surface and selected edges when adding triangles, the face preview and the edge preview when adding nodes and the extrusion lines and the extrusion in the feature Extrude Surfaces.

For the measuring and the test module, you can set the color of tested measurments and values that are within or without your tolerance (test module), the part in the screen, the lines and the faces of previewed values in the screen and the text and the background of the measuring point.