A2Plus: Face Colors

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freecader2
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A2Plus: Face Colors

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Hi,

Does anyone know if A2Plus supports face colors on the parts it imports?

I made a simple test object in Part Design, and set multiple colors on the faces. Then imported it to another doc in A2Plus, and it lost the colors.

Is there a way to keep the colors in A2Plus? If not, do you know if any of the other assembly workbenches can keep colors?

Thanks!
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Re: A2Plus: Face Colors

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Based on my tests, it seems that colors are imported to A2plus only with STEP files, not with .FCStd ones.

You could try the other assembly workbenches.
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Re: A2Plus: Face Colors

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asm3 and asm4 should keep the colors because they use links, A2+ makes a plain copy of the shape so I think it doesn't support colors.
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Re: A2Plus: Face Colors

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Moved to Assembly forum.
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