{"id":234,"date":"2012-07-13T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/3dvia-composer-custom-colour-silhouettes"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:09:21","slug":"3dvia-composer-custom-colour-silhouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/07\/3dvia-composer-custom-colour-silhouettes.html","title":{"rendered":"3DVIA Composer: Custom Color Silhouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can highlight aspects of your image by creating an .svg with Technical Illustrator in 3DVIA Composer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/first.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/first.png\" title=\"first\" width=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>If I want to bring attention to the nose of this part I can use Line Thickness and Line Color to do this.<\/p>\n<p>First you select the nose, and then in the Properties tab change the outline options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/change.jpg\" title=\"change\" width=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this example, I will change the width of the line to 5 and change the colour to red.<\/p>\n<p>When you go to export your file in Technical Illustrator as an .svg  you need to un-check same color for all actors. If not, it will ignore  the color change you made in the Properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/done1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/done1.jpg\" title=\"done\" width=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a really great YouTube video that demonstrates how to do this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/--4VY4BhUNs\" width=\"475\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Matt Campbell is an Applications Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\" target=\"_self\">Javelin Technologie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\" target=\"_self\">s<\/a>,  a SolidWorks Value Added Reseller with locations in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a regular  contributor to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_self\"> the Javelin blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can highlight aspects of your image by creating an .svg with Technical Illustrator in 3DVIA Composer. &#0160; If I want to bring attention to the nose of this part I can use Line Thickness and Line Color to do<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/07\/3dvia-composer-custom-colour-silhouettes.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks-composer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}