HaroldL
Alibre Super User
MilesH said:Harold,
It's Feature defined only (not Faces).
I don't know if there's any way to carry forward Feature Colors into AP 214, or not - or whether this would be of any use in HyperShot. What happens with SolidWorks sub-Part colors?
For many situations, you can create the logo etc. as a separate Part.
I expect material assignment by face will come to HyperShot, soon.
Miles,
I ran a quick test with a part out of SolidWorks. I used the same part that Ralf helped me with from Alibre.
After importing it in to SW, I saved it out as a native SW part, STEP203, STEP214, and IGES.
Before each save I placed an embossed text label to tell them apart and I also applied, what's now called "Appearances" in SW2009, to several surfaces.
Here are the results:
Other than a scaling issue, both the SW part and the IGES file imported with all its pieces, the SWpart also bringing in the color mapping. Both of the STEP files lost some surfaces during the import, although the STEP214 did bring in the color mapping.
I don't have a screen shot of it, but I just imported a STEP214 file out of Alibre and it came in scaled up about 4 times larger than the SW STEPs. All the files imported after the first had all the options except "Retain Materials" checked on the import dialog.
So there you have it. It looks like STEP214 does carry color information down to the surface level, at least from SolidWorks. According to Bunkspeed, colors and textures have to be applied in the CAD application since HyperShot does not support mapping materials to surfaces within HS.
If AD v12 Feature colors do not export with in the STEP214 format, like SW, then it will be interesting to see what kind of "work arounds" will have to be created to accomplish the same results.
Then we have HyperShot v2 coming out soon too, and what enhancements will that have?
H.
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