isolate parts by color

[Ironman]

Good morning.
I have a set with many components and I would like to isolate them according to color, example: I want to see all the green pieces, rather than gray or yellow.
with the function find by color only selects a very small part unfortunately. do you have any suggestions about this?

Once selected you know if there is a simple way to isolate them so you can only see the pieces of that color?
Thank you

 

[gianni55]

Good morning.
I have a set with many components and I would like to isolate them according to color, example: I want to see all the green pieces, rather than gray or yellow.
with the function find by color only selects a very small part unfortunately. do you have any suggestions about this?

Once selected you know if there is a simple way to isolate them so you can only see the pieces of that color?
Thank you

Hi.

can depend on many factors:
if the color is assigned to the object (the single part not in the product)
if the color is assigned to the part but within the product
if the colors are exactly the same or have different shades
if the assigned color is only partially (for example only one face

in the last case in the function find by color you have to select "include topology"

to select them use the button found and select (the binoculars with the pointer)
then using the "hide" command you will see only the selected.

I add that it is not a good method since hiding objects without selecting them from the father tree (and then inside), makes it difficult to make them visible again as if you apply the command selects everything and displays, you find everything that was hidden including sketches etc.

But what exactly do you have to do?

Let me know.

 

[Ironman]

Hi.

can depend on many factors:
if the color is assigned to the object (the single part not in the product)
if the color is assigned to the part but within the product
if the colors are exactly the same or have different shades
if the assigned color is only partially (for example only one face

in the last case in the function find by color you have to select "include topology"

to select them use the button found and select (the binoculars with the pointer)
then using the "hide" command you will see only the selected.

I add that it is not a good method since hiding objects without selecting them from the father tree (and then inside), makes it difficult to make them visible again as if you apply the command selects everything and displays, you find everything that was hidden including sketches etc.

But what exactly do you have to do?

Let me know.

first of all thanks to the answer.
what I want to do is this (I hope to expose the thing clearly), I would like to have on screen only the pieces of a certain color so that I can export them (in step, wrl or svg) and then be able to import them into blender, or even solidworks.
so I would export the "group" of green pieces, the group of black pieces, etc... and I could import them as already composed groups. this would facilitate the application of colors to make for example a rendering, or for the preparation of 3d models to be included in the control software of our machines.
Otherwise I am forced to group the pieces later, but talking about assemblies with hundreds, if not thousands of pieces I become an endless job unfortunately.

 

[mcbramby]

Did you change the max selectable number to 5000 items?? ? ?
otherwise go to tools/options/generate/find and move to 5000 selections
Maybe you'll stick more and it's enough x what you want to do

 

[mcbramby]

Then you could use the layers maybe, I never used but I know that there are......... you can create 1 layer x each color and then use them by turning off and turning on, but I have no idea how to do........ if no one else intervenes to explain............ as soon as I can try and place something

 

[Ironman]

Did you change the max selectable number to 5000 items?? ? ?
otherwise go to tools/options/generate/find and move to 5000 selections
Maybe you'll stick more and it's enough x what you want to do

actually increasing the number can select a lot more, probably everyone.
I tried by joining the gianni55 board, popping up "include topology". correctly select all parts of a given color but move to the desired layer only the parts that have been colored "natively". colored ones inside the axieme no.
but this because you can apply the layer only to the body and not to the parts. it would be very convenient to use the layers because it would allow me to see which parts remain on the "base" layer and so I know which ones I have to manually fix.

I am now trying this procedure: I look for all parts of color different from what I need, I hide them and take them, then cancel the command hide and proceed with another color.
a bit slender maybe but I should solve by doing a custom macro, so I would go to exclude most of the pieces since my machines have those 3/4 main colors.

of course if someone has better advice

 

[gianni55]

move on the layer the complete part cannot be done in the product (it would only put the selected entities, that is the colored ones... It is also hard to do it on the single part as the system is prepared to assign layers different to each geometric group or body of the same part.
to bypass the obstacle you could try from the product "find and select" "color", then from the edit menu - selected objects - open in a new window. you should open all the parts that have that color inside both the whole body, on a face or a surface of the many. at this point you will have a number of open parts per window, for each window selections with a trap all the visible entities, check the layer, save and close the window. complicated also this, but for export to other programs having different layers is often useful.
see you

 

[Ironman]

move on the layer the complete part cannot be done in the product (it would only put the selected entities, that is the colored ones... It is also hard to do it on the single part as the system is prepared to assign layers different to each geometric group or body of the same part.
to bypass the obstacle you could try from the product "find and select" "color", then from the edit menu - selected objects - open in a new window. you should open all the parts that have that color inside both the whole body, on a face or a surface of the many. at this point you will have a number of open parts per window, for each window selections with a trap all the visible entities, check the layer, save and close the window. complicated also this, but for export to other programs having different layers is often useful.
see you

I'll try tomorrow.
The method I was following seems to work. a little slender but it's an operation I don't often do at least for now so it's manageable.
I'll still see if I put down a macro that might be launched in the evening so that I can find the big work already done in the morning.

 

[falonef]

Hi.
What version do you use?

 

[Ironman]

Hi.
What version do you use?

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