Colors Tab Reference (Application Options)

Access

File Options Colors tab

Design/Drafting

Displays the effect of the color choice in either the design or the drafting environment. Click Design or Drafting to view the effect of the active color choice in the view box.

In-canvas Color scheme

Lists the available color schemes. Click to select from the available schemes. The view box displays the result of your selection.

Customize Schemes

Provides access to the Color Scheme editor where you can customize the color schemes of the graphical elements used in Inventor.

Background

1 Color

Applies a solid color to the background.

Gradient

Applies a saturation gradient to the background color.

Background Image

Displays a bitmap in the graphics window background. This selection persists, regardless of selected color scheme. The file name is specific for each color scheme.

File name

Available only when Background image option is selected. Click

to browse a .bmp image. The default directory is Autodesk Inventor

Texture.

To avoid distorting the image, make it the same size as the graphics window (both scale and aspect ratio). if it does not match the graphics window size, the image stretches and is cropped.

Note: Large files affect the performance of Autodesk Inventor.

Reflection Environment

Specifies the image and image type for the reflection map.

File name

Click to browse to the appropriate image.

The default directory is Autodesk InventorTextures. Your hardware graphics setting determines the available file types. Direct 3D supports Cube Map (*.dds) and Sphere Map (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png) file types. OpenGL supports Sphere Map file types.

Section Capping Plane Texture

Controls the color or texture image of the capping faces used when using the Section View command. Learn more: To Work with Section Views

Default - Gray: The default model face color.
Bitmap Image: Select this option to use a texture map image as the face texture. Click the Browse button to navigate to and select the texture image to use.

Tip: Use an image editing tool to create the solid color image or texture map.

Highlight

Sets the object selection behavior.

Enable Prehighlight (not available in Inventor LT)

Shows prehighlighting when the cursor moves over an object. Activated by default. In the assembly and weldment environments, when turned off, prehighlighting does not show during component or part selection priority.

Does not affect Select Other, which always shows prehighlighting.

Also available on the Select pull-down menu on the Quick Access toolbar.

Enable Enhanced Highlighting (not available in Inventor LT)

Shows the prehighlighting or highlighting of assembly components through other components. Highlighting displays when a component or constraint is either highlighted or selected.

UI Theme

Controls the color of the application icons.

Amber: Check this option to use legacy icon colors. You must restart Inventor to update the browser icons.