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when a sketch is not fully defined, is there a way to change the highlight from blue
knute_forsman817
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I have a difficult time discerning blue from black in the user interface. It would be nice to be able to have those issues highlighted in an easier color.
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I agree 1000%. It's especially painful if it's an unconstrained endpoint under one that is. One thing that sometimes helps is to switch - even temporarily - to dark mode. The contrast with the dark mode colors is a little better.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
I don’t think an improvement request has been created for this. As a red green color deficient person… I share this difficulty. I see blue very well but not against black. Here’s an example of the impossibility of seeing what’s unconstrained.
My suggestion would be to make it user configured. I don’t think an IR has been created. At least I haven’t found one.
It would be nice if the "profile inspector" could be set to highlight all underdefined vertices (instead of just "outer" end points)…
In my opinion, any unconstrained end point or vertice is pretty close to a "serious issue" or on it's way to become one any time. I see no reason not to use a more alerting mark for these. Since sketch vertices can exist on top of each other, it might be worth while thinking of always displaying unconstrained vertices on top of others AND giving an unconstrained one a red halo, do it shines out even if obscured by something else on top of it.
Also, as can be seen in the above screen shots, a blue point on a light blue backgrund (the plane, which typically goes along with a sketch) reduces contrast even more and the combination is certainly a bad choice.
I had chatgpt go through @martin_kopplow image to see if it could locate the issue and it really struggled to find the issue. probably just due to training but it was a fun experiment. I then asked it for suggestions and the below images are what it came up with. Interesting suggestion with the toggle to highlight unconstrained entities and the suggestion of multiple colors depending on how constrained the line/point is. Here is a link to the chat process. https://chatgpt.com/share/68b1a15e-a124-8008-8eda-f560aeb7f641
ChatGPT tells a lot of nonsens when days are long, but in point 1 it is right with the orange: That is in fact the complimentary contrast colour for blue. I don't agree with the idea to differentiate partly and unconstrained curves with more colour tones. How many subtle tones does it take to visualize a curve with 26 vertices gradually becoming fully constrained? An entity is either fully constrained or not. It is not that we have too few shades of constraints, it is just that we cannot spot the important one.
So I'd agree with ChatGPT to highlight that one, EG like I outlined above. It causes no clutter and is simple and effective.
I don't think it was implying a gradual tone like that. just that 1 or 2 more contrasted colors could tell you whether a point was constrained or partially constrained or not at all… or a line was constrained or or partially constrained or not at all. So everything would be blue (or whatever) with no constraints. then if you told a line to be coincident with a point. the line and its end points change to orange (or whatever) then when the endpoints get locked in it turns black. over constrained is still red. It probably is more complicated to do that but that's what I think chatgpt is implying there. Not saying its a great suggestion, but just that it was an interesting one.