SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part I: SolidWorks Basics

Customizing colors

You need to be aware of a few things before you change the standard colors in the SolidWorks

interface. The first is that SolidWorks does not automatically alter text color to contrast with your

background. As a result, if you set the background to black, and the text is black, you won’t be

able to see the text. This may seem obvious to some people, but AutoCAD automatically changes

text color to contrast with the viewport background, and so AutoCAD users may take this func-

tionality for granted.

Exploring default selection colors ....................................................................

All the interface colors are controlled in the Systems Options Colors dialog box. You can access the

dialog box by choosing Tools ➪ Options ➪ Colors. The selection color in particular is set at

Selected Item 1, as shown in Figure 2.30.

FIGURE 2.30

Changing interface colors

Notice that you can set a color scheme. I recommend that if you want to change the colors used in

the interface, you save the settings as a color scheme so that the scheme can be re-created easily

later or handed off to another computer. Color schemes are stored in the Windows registry, not as

separate files. To transfer color settings to another computer, you will need to either use the Copy

Settings Wizard or manually copy data from the Windows registry.