mgajewski Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 How can I quickly select a single solid color for the whole background? Right now I am using a workaround by selecting the same top and bottom color in the scene properties / background dialog box but this has gotten old as I need to change the background colors often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas@Solidmakarna Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 How about drag and drop from the Color catalog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 How about drag and drop from the Color catalog? 33243[/snapback] Jonas, How do you do it? When I drag a color from the catalog and drop it onto the background nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I'm just dropping a color from the Color Catalog onto the background and it changes to that color. This would fail if you currently have the background set to a 3D Environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 I'm just dropping a color from the Color Catalog onto the background and it changes to that color. This would fail if you currently have the background set to a 3D Environment. 33249[/snapback] Kevin, That's what I've tried about a dozen of times and it did not work. My bkgrnd is set to color. I wonder of something has gone bad with my IronCAD and I have to reinstall it. I'm not looking forward to that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Mark Doesn't work for me either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 Mark Doesn't work for me either. 33252[/snapback] Tom, This makes me wonder if the software is buggy or if there are some weird interactions going on. I had set my Triball shortcut to "caps lock" key instead of F10 - that's much handier because of the key's location, but I wonder if that confused the software in some way because of the ambiguity of the key's function under these circumstances. Bottom line, the software is now significantly dysfunctional for me. As to the background dialog box, it seems to me that the previously available single solid color option has been eliminated. I'd like to ask IronCAD to put it back in - it may be unimportant to some but to me little things like that add up when it comes to productivity. Jonas' suggestion was great - or it would be if it worked for you and me. In previous IC versions I know it did work because sometimes I'd accidentally change the background when aiming to apply a texture or color to a part and missing. And the inability to enter numbers when editing 2D sketches has just grown a lot. In the recent IC versions I was often unable to enter the numeral 1 - so I'd enter 3-2 instead. Now there are a lot of things I cannot enter in the dimension and label boxes. Perhaps it does have something to do with corrupt customization files? I'd hate to have to manually redo all of my customizations - especially if there's no certainty this would solve the problem. I do have those files backed up but if they are messed up, what good is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 dropping a color from catalog works for me. also selecting background from right click menu works to change the background color. could it be version related? I am using 64Bit Version Build Number 10589 Version 14.0 (date 2011-09-13 Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 dropping a color from catalog works for me. also selecting background from right click menu works to change the background color. could it be version related? I am using 64Bit Version Build Number 10589 Version 14.0 (date 2011-09-13 Dallas 33259[/snapback] I think it could. I think I'm using the latest version, with the latest hot fix etc. I know that in previous releases these things worked OK, as you describe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Mark, Its my opinion (not necessariy fact) that since IC switched to the HOOPS graphic framework that there is alot of issues that still need to be addressed, since I fear that most issues I have are graphic related. that in conjunction with NVidia cards having some of their own issues makes it difficult for IC to get a handle on these "graphics" issues since they are relying on 2 external developeres to align their moons or at least get their bugs worked out. My 2 cents worth. oh wait inflation... My half cent worth ;-) Edited December 13, 2011 by tlehnhaeuser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snelson Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 could it be version related? I am using 64Bit Version Build Number 10589 Version 14.0 (date 2011-09-13 Dallas 33259[/snapback] Using the same build version here and drag/drop color from the color catalog doesn't work for me. It did work in previous versions for us too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgajewski Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Mark, Its my opinion (not necessariy fact) that since IC switched to the HOOPS graphic framework that there is alot of issues that still need to be addressed, since I fear that most issues I have are graphic related. that in conjunction with NVidia cards having some of their own issues makes it difficult for IC to get a handle on these "graphics" issues since they are relying on 2 external developeres to align their moons or at least get their bugs worked out. My 2 cents worth. oh wait inflation... My half cent worth ;-) 33264[/snapback] Tom, It may well be so. Not wanting to be callous, I think that's their problem. And to their credit they are not using excuses. If they did, it would be a bit like saying "my dog ate my homework". It does not work in graduate school : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Allen Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Dragging a color/texture to the background didn't work for me until I switched my rendering driver type from OpenGL2 to DirectX. Now it works with all 3 driver types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 It works for me and mine is in OpenGL Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 There is a bug. If you open IRONCAD and start a new scene and drop a color directly into the background it should work. However, if you right-click and access the back ground page, it will not update the color page and if you hit ok, it will revert to the colors listed and then the drop from catalog will no longer function. This will be filed to R&D. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Andersson Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Using OPEN GL2 as real time graphics driver:: File/New/Scene/ select BLANK template= Do not work. File/New/Scene/ select Ironcad blue template= Do work. Using DIRECT X, same behavior. Using OPEN GL, same behavior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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