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The colors subpanel allows you to select colors for the global axis, axis labels, free edges, suppressed edges, and T-joint edges, and many more entities.  You can also change the screen background color, the global axes indicators, and more.

To change the colors of any part of the interface, click the Color button next to its name.  This opens a standard color palette, from which you can pick your desired color.  Simply clicking the color selects it and closes the palette.

You can also click the reset button to return to the default colors, undoing any and all color changes.

Items for which you can change colors include:

 

Environment

background:

The background color of the graphics area.

global X axis:

The X axis indicator in the global coordinate system which displays in the corner of the graphics area.

Note:If you change this to "background", all three axes change to the background color on the assumption that the only reason to make one axis invisible is to make them all invisible for screenshots or display purposes.

global Y axis:

The Y axis indicator in the global coordinate system which displays in the corner of the graphics area.

Note:If you change this to "background", all three axes change to the background color on the assumption that the only reason to make one axis invisible is to make them all invisible for screenshots or display purposes.

global Z axis:

The Z axis indicator in the global coordinate system which displays in the corner of the graphics area.

Note:If you change this to "background", all three axes change to the background color on the assumption that the only reason to make one axis invisible is to make them all invisible for screenshots or display purposes.

axis label:

The X, Y, and Z letters on the global coordinate system which displays in the corner of the graphics area.

mesh line:

The color of the lines on a mesh that indicate the edges of mesh elements.

 

Surface Data

Free Edges:

Edges of surfaces that do not connect to any other surfaces.

Shared Edges:

Edges of surfaces that connect to one other surface.

Suppressed Edges:

Shared edges that have been manually suppressed so that the automesher will treat the shared surfaces as if they were one surface, allowing elements to cross the edge as if it were not there at all.

T-Junctions:

Edges shared by 3 or more surfaces.

 

3d Solids

Fin Faces:

Fin faces are surfaces that split a 3D solid entity, but only partway through--they do not actually extend through the entire entity.

Bounding Faces:

The outer faces of solid entity.

Full Partition Faces:

The faces of adjoined solids

2d Faces (topo):

When using the by 2D topo visualization mode, this is the color of 2D faces that are not part of a solid.

Ignored (topo):

The color of 2D faces when using the by 2D topo visualization mode.

Edges (comp):

Mesh edges when coloring mesh with the by comp visualization mode.

 

By Mappable Display Control (solids)

Ignored Map:

Default visualization for solids that require partitioning to become mappable.

Not Mappable:

Visualization for solids that have been edited, but still require further partitioning to create mappable solids.

1 Dir. Map:

Visualization for solids that can be mapped (for 3D meshing) in one direction.

3 Dir. Map:

Visualization for solids that can be mapped (for 3D meshing) in three directions.

 

Elements

elems, no prop/mat:

Elements that do not have any properties or materials assigned to them.