Color and Appearance

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Color and Appearance

• Presented by the Three Engineers
• (and friend)

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Basic Color 101

• After you have finished making a part you may
  want to modify its color for many various
  reasons.
• To do so simply click on color and appearance
  located in the View Menu of Pro Engineer.

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Basic Colors 101

• On Pro E you can modify colors on individual
  surfaces or the entire part depending on your
  desired appearance.
• Under Assignments choose Part to modify the
  entire part and surfaces if you only want to
  change one or two surfaces.

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Basic Colors 101

• Because the default appearance can not be
  modified you will need to either make a new
  appearance or click on a pre-existing one.
• To make a new appearance click the Plus Sign to
  the right of the appearances.
• After you have an appearance that you can work
  with, click on apply so that the part will
  reflect the appearance.

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Basic Colors 101

• Now that you have applied an appearance to your
  part you can choose its color.
• To change the color of individual surfaces you
  can click on any surface or hold control while
  clicking on multiple surfaces to change the
  colors of more than one surface at a time.

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Basic Colors 101

• After you have made your selection click on the
  Color Tab in the properties sub-window.
• This will open up the color editor where you can
  pick the color of your surfaces using the color
  wheel or the blending palette.

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Basic Colors 101

• In the color wheel simply click on your desired
  color and then adjust the contrast directly
  beneath the wheel on the contrast bar.
• You can also use the rgb/hsv slider to change the
  color of the appearance by adjusting the
  individual sliders.

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Basic Colors 101

• In the blending palette click on one of the four
  little squares surrounding the palette, and then
  choose a color for it on the wheel. Once you have
  chosen the four colors you want to blend, you can
  click the color you want from the palette.

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Basic Colors 101

• Now that you know the basics you can experiment
  with your parts to put some life them.
• In the next lesson we will go into more depth
  with what you can do with the color and
  appearance editor.

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Mapping 101

• To start with the mapping you first have to place
  a color in the object that you will be copying.
  To do that all you have to do is color the object
  like we did in the last film.

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• To use the map tool you will first have to have
  something in the list so that you can put
  something in the object and I will show you how
  to place pictures in the in the bump, color
  texture and decal.

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• We will also be placing a new texture in the list
  by taking it from a different list. This is so
  that you can have more to choose from. And later
  we will also show you how to take pictures off
  the web that you can use as well.

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• The other things that we will do is to show you
  the difference in the Bump, Color texture and
  Decal maps. The Bump will show you a 3-D shadow
  and the Color texture will show you a color 3-D
  picture where the decal will only give you a 2-D
  print.

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• We will also show you how to move the picture on
  the X and Y axis by using the tool in the
  positioning page called copies and the
  positioning tool itself as well as the flipping
  tool.

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Advanced Section 101

• We are going to go over the advanced section of
  the appearance editor and teach you how to use
  the reflection, transparency and refraction tools.

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• The reflecting tool will show you how much light
  will reflect off the surface of the object and
  how it can be controlled.

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• In the transparency tool it does what the name
  means. It will make the object invisible or
  slightly invisible.

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• When using the refraction tool on a part it will
  change the look of the part that is being seen
  though the part that has the refraction on it.

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Importing pictures 101

• What we will be doing in this section is to
  import external files from the web and saving
  them and putting them on a part.

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• Once the picture you want is located you will
  need to save it in a place that you will be able
  to find in Pro-engineer

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• It is very important that you save it as (jpg) on
  the file extension. You can change it by going to
  the working directory and changing it there.

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• After getting the picture that you wanted you
  will need to open up Pro-engineer. Then go to map
  in appearance placement and open the texture box.
  Then open up the file that you saved.

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• Once you have the picture in the texture box then
  you can apply it to the object.

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• Save a copy of the part that has been done with
  the picture and place a name to it and then save
  it on the working directory.

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• We have restarted Pro-engineer so that we can
  show you how to bring back your picture. You will
  need to go to the file that you saved but first
  you will need to set up the working directory in
  Pro-engineer.

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• Once you have set up the working directory in
  pro-engineer you will be able to see your part
  with your picture on it and will be able to bring
  it up anytime.

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Parts in VRML 101

• After completing a certain part on Pro E you
  might need to set it up in the Virtual World.
• In this section we will be saving files in VRML
  and setting them up in the virtual world.

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• After you have completed the desired part you
  need to save the file as a VRML file type.
• Make sure that in the export VRML menu you select
  setup, click on high quality, designated
  parameter, and all views

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• By saving the part as a VRML file it will create
  an internet file which is the file type needed to
  place a part in the Virtual World.

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• You can also process different changes by opening
  notepad to the VRML file.
• For instance you can change the anchor and
  pictures on the part by modifying the program
  code in notepad.

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• There are times when a certain view is required
  in the Virtual World. Pro E has a feature where
  a particular view of the part can be saved in
  VRML.