Then I set up the lights in the View Overrides dialog, which we will come to shortly. Under Appearance, I made it very shiny, and in Reflection Box, I assigned a picture of the sky. Emission is the color the object would emit if it were a light bulb (great way to make glowing lights on models).
First, I assigned a Diffuse color of purple, then a red specular color, and a light blue ambient, with an Emission of dark blue. Yes, I realize it’s ridiculous, but there will come a day when someone needs to makes something like this, and now they can do it. To the right is a part with a special style that I made just to show what can be done. This functionality is much more powerful than I initially thought. Reflection Box (background that will be reflected on parts from all six sides, or from a hemispherical image, depending on the Define Using setting)įrom all of these available settings, you can either modify existing styles or create your own from scratch.Appearance (optical properties such as shininess, reflectivity, opacity, refraction, cast and accept shadows).Face color (diffuse/specular/ambient/emission).Face Styles in Solid Edge consist of the following factors We have talked about the Dimension styles options in a previous article on units and standards.Ĭolor is not the only visual property that you can control for Solid Edge parts. In the top selection box, the two items we are most concerned with at this time are the 3D View Styles and the Faces Styles. The Style (View > Style > Styles) dialog is the beginning of a wild journey of visual and display customization options. Solid Edge gives an amazing level of control when it comes to creating new styles of visual options. At first, I only saw the Part Painter, View Overrides and the Color Manager when looking for color controls. Still, it’s important, and maybe a topic that new users will benefit from.Īs is becoming usual for me when I learn new Solid Edge functionality, something that originally looked simple becomes much more involved once I start diving into the details. That’s a bit of a softball topic after the Virtual Components posts. One of the topics suggested was “adding/creating visual styles/textures”. A couple of weeks ago I asked for some suggestions for blog article topics on the forum.
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