How to break color derived selections

jrose2001

I am doing a simple copy part using transform. I need to be able to change the color of individual faces of the copied part but am running into something new. It now says the color is a “derived selection”. I can’t find any way to stop this or break the link. In the past this was not a problem so something has changed recently. Any help is much appreciated 

rafael_telgmann

Hi, I had the same problem. The only solution I found is to offset the face by 0mm and then replace it. It is a bad workaround, but it works.

rafael_telgmann

Hi, I had the same problem. The only solution I found is to offset the face by 0mm and then replace it. It is a bad workaround, but it works.

jrose2001

thanks rafael 

S1mon

Interesting work around.

With some of the custom color feature scripts you can override face colors. I wonder if that would work in this case?

jrose2001

How would one do that Simon? 

S1mon

It really depends on what you want to do, but there are some custom features available to assign colors. The trick is that you need to assign the colors to the faces, not the part. See this thread for some details: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18765/setproperty-propertytype-appearance-face-vs-part-priority

jackson_harker786

In my opinion, the best solution is to export your part as a .obj and re import it, this causes it to lose it's history and stops this problem.

NeilCooke

jackson_harker786 said:

In my opinion, the best solution is to export your part as a .obj and re import it, this causes it to lose its history and stops this problem.

Please don’t do this.