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Can we use multiple colours within one sketch

Gerard
Gerard Member Posts: 21 PRO
in Community Support
I have got a complex Master Sketch that will drive many sub assemblies. I like to use multiple colours. I noticed the new option assigning appearances to a sketch, but not to selected entities of a sketch. Any suggestions please?
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  • Gerard
    Gerard Member Posts: 21 PRO
    Answer ✓
    Thanks, learning every day.  :) I will review options of using multiple sketches to combine as required when inserting in new assemblies. Thanks Steg and S1mon, much appreciated.

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  • STEG
    STEG Member, User Group Leader Posts: 140 PRO
    edited March 2024
    You can't use more than 1 color in a single sketch (for now at least). Why not split you "complex" sketch into multiple simpler sketches? "Complex" sketch is rarely a good thing.
  • Gerard_Boterman
    Gerard_Boterman Member Posts: 31 ✭✭
    Reason for a 'complex' Master sketch is that it is inserted in all new created sub-assemblies and used for mating. Having one master would make this easier. Colours would help identifying. Having many sketches would mean we have to insert many sketches to construct our sub-assemblies, while all subassembly configurations have to follow the pattern of the master sketch.
    Trying to work out the best way of using sketches to create sub-assemblies with up to 20 configurations each, all to fit a top assembly with over 100,000 variations. :)
  • S1mon
    S1mon Member Posts: 4,450 PRO
    Multiple sketches wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing. You could make a subassembly from them, and then use that as your skeleton to hang things off of.

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  • Gerard
    Gerard Member Posts: 21 PRO
    Answer ✓
    Thanks, learning every day.  :) I will review options of using multiple sketches to combine as required when inserting in new assemblies. Thanks Steg and S1mon, much appreciated.

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