Sets the color scheme for the graphics window, appearance of the background, and optional background image.
File Options Colors tab
Tools tab Options panel Application Options Colors tab
Displays the effect of the color scheme in either the design or the drafting environment. Click Design or Drafting to view the effect of the active color scheme in the view box.
Controls the color of the application icons, window frame, background (default), property panels, and dialogs. Select a user interface theme from the list of available themes.
Sets the object selection behavior.
Objects highlight when the cursor moves over them, helps you to know what you are selecting. 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.
Shows the prehighlighting or highlighting of assembly components through other components. Highlighting displays when a component or constraint is either highlighted or selected.
Lists the available color schemes. Click to select from the available schemes. The view box displays the result of your selection.
Provides access to the Color Scheme editor where you can customize the color schemes of the graphical elements used in Inventor.
Applies a solid color to the background.
Applies a saturation gradient to the background color.
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.
Available only when Background image option is selected. Click
to browse a .bmp image. The default directory is Autodesk InventorTexture.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.
Specifies the image for the reflection map. Reflection maps are used only with non-IBL lighting styles. Use the Default Lights lighting style in the model environment to keep shaded drawing views in sync.
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.
Controls the color or texture image of the capping faces used when using the Section View command. Learn more: To Work with Section Views