Using selection colors in 2D and 3D models can make it easier to distinguish between selections of geometry objects and geometric entities. You can add a selection color to all selection nodes that you add from the Selections menu when right-clicking a
Definitions node (or from the
Definitions toolbar) In their
Settings window, you can choose a color that represents that selection from the
Color list. You can also assign colors using a
Color list when you select the
Resulting objects selection in the
Settings window for most geometric primitives and geometry operations in geometry sequences.
From the color palette that opens you can choose None (the default, for no color); choose a color from the list of theme colors; or define and add custom colors that you can choose from by clicking
Define custom colors, define a new custom color, and then click
Add to custom colors. You specify a color theme in the
Preferences dialog box on the
Graphics and Plot Windows page. You can also specify it in the root node’s
Settings window. The color themes contains a set of colors that are chosen to form a suitable theme.
By clicking the Suppress Selection Highlight button (
) you can temporarily disable the selection highlight colors in the Graphics window. The state is reset automatically when you, for example, switch node in the
Model Builder.
From the Colors menus (
) on the Definitions and Geometry toolbar you can choose the following actions for selection colors in definitions nodes and in geometry nodes, respectively:
These settings are also available in a Group node that you have created and that contains a number of selection nodes, for example.
On the Graphics window toolbar, you can choose
Show Selection Colors and
Show Material Colors and Texture from the
Colors menu (
) to control the display of selection colors and material color and texture. Both of them can be selected at the same time. The same settings are also available in the
Colors section of the
View nodes’
Settings window.