Color Pallet

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Paul Wood
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Color Pallet

Post by Paul Wood »

We only have a small color pallet of about 16 colors. Is there a way we can get a large color pallet, for it to stay in the background of 12d
Steve Hunter
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Post by Steve Hunter »

The number of displayed colours is controlled by the project defaults - to get to this panel go to Project > Management > Defaults

The number of colours displayed is on the System tab

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Once you change it to your new number, hit "Set", then save your project - this number of displayed numbers will remain whenever you open your project.

If you "Write" the defaults.4d file out with this number of colours set, it can be loaded (using the same panel) into other existing projects, or if it is saved in your USER folder, it will be applied whenever you create a new project.
Paul Wood
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Post by Paul Wood »

Perfect, thats what we were after.
Thanks for your assistance steve
Lee Gregory
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Post by Lee Gregory »

In V11 the default for this has been changed to show more colours and the pop up order modified so that the standard colours appear at the top of the pop up.
Joel Allsop
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Post by Joel Allsop »

53 is the magic number (in V10) to get all the standard colours plus the visualisation colours.
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Post by Owen Thornton »

In V11 the installed default is 90 in $SET_UPS\defaults.4d, but other values are included as comments in this file, for convenience:

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//DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS  17 //Standard 12d colours ... 
//DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS  21 //... plus shading colours ...
//DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS  30 //... plus pen colours ...
DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS  90 //... plus vis colours ...
//DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS  100 //... plus top 10 Acad colours ...
//DEFAULT POPUP COLOURS 322 //... plus graduated colours ...
Note that these numbers are only based on the installed colours in $SET_UPS\colours.4d.
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