Change color of solid, surface, or wire

To enhance the appearance and visibility of solids, surfaces, and wires, you can change their appearance. This can be useful in making a feature or body more visible for communicating design intent.

Change color in construction environment

You can change appearance at several levels within the construction environment.

1. In the browser, Construction folder, right-click a node and select Properties.
2. On the Properties dialog, click the down arrow on Appearance. Click to select an appearance, then click OK.

Change group appearance

You can select a group and change its appearance from the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

The default appearance for all new groups you create is As Construction.

Change subgroup appearance

In the construction environment, selecting a subgroup updates the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

You can select a subgroup and change its appearance from the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

In the construction environment, in Appearance, select As Group for the color.

Override body appearance

In the construction environment, selecting a body, solid, surface, or quilt updates the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

Solid and Quilts can have body appearance overrides, but Wires cannot.

In Appearance, select As Group, As Subgroup, or Construction to override the body appearance

Override face appearance

In the construction environment, selecting a face updates the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

You can override solid and quilt face appearances, but Wires cannot.

In Appearance, select As Group, As Subgroup, or Construction to override the face color.

Change appearance of parametric surface

You can change the appearance of surfaces to make them more visible.

1. Create a surface feature.
2. In the browser, right-click the feature, and select Properties.
3. On the Feature Properties dialog, feature Appearance, click the down arrow, then select an appearance. Click OK.
4. To switch between opaque or translucent, right-click the surface, and select the Translucent option.

Surface features, faces within a surface feature, or placed features on surface features can all have appearance overrides. In Feature Appearance, select As Application Surface Appearance or As Feature to override a surface face appearance

In Feature Appearance, select As Application Surface Appearance or As Feature to override a surface face appearance. Surface face appearances are not used when new design data is created.

Surface features

You can change the appearance of a surface feature:

Select a feature and change its appearance from the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

In Appearance, select As Application Surface Appearance

In part modeling, selecting a surface feature updates the Autodesk Inventor Quick Access toolbar.

Override face appearances

You can override face appearances:

In Appearance, select As Features or As Application Surface Appearance.