Having issues with model colors changing...

[Nose Bleed]

...And it's causing me a nose bleed. Each time I decide to modify a color of a surface within an assembly, I set the color that I want, save the model, and then go back to modeling.



Now, when I'm ready to add a new part to my assembly, the colors get all fouled up on the surface I had just previously modified the color on - to some other wacko color I never chose!



Any ideas how this might be happening? This has never happened before, It just started doing this, this week.



By the way, it's version 2001.

 

[leo]

Every once in a while I

 

[Nose Bleed]

Exactly!!! BLACK!!!!



Actually, It gave me another color this evening- after I posted this - Violet - when I chose WHITE!!!!!



Man - If I was on drugs - this would be really cool - but, I'm at work (12:00 a.m.)

 

[Nose Bleed]

P.S. Think I found the cure for the color change. Save the assembly after the color change, then close Pro/e. Re-open - change the color AGAIN - then save. Seems to work...



Anyone know a quicker way?



See ya in 4 hours.... Yes, I want some cheese to go with my whine....

 

[jabbadeus]

Stupid question, but shouldn't you be changing the surface color in part mode if you want it to affect all instances in the assembly?

 

[Nose Bleed]

That just it - I don't want it changing all instances, just a particular surface...



Otherwise no, just changing the surface color in part mode will only affect that individual part/ surface on that part - not the rest of the assembly, unless I chose to modify color from model in assembly mode, then all colors on that particular part would change.

 

[jabbadeus]

How about creating a surface as an assembly level feature, offset some microscopic distance from the original surface, and applying a color to that?

 

[Nose Bleed]

Hmmm, seems to be less effort to just resave - However, todays modeling didn't have this problem. I changed colors as I always have in the past, and they stayed put!



There must be a ghost in the machine