[SOLVED] view solid colors in technical drawing

[Kunda1]

[LorTay]

Is possible to represent views of a solid in a technical draw that preserve the object original colors? something like this:

Hi everyone,
It looks like this was solved, but can anyone tell me how to fill objects with color in TechDraw?
Is there a tutorial on this already?
I can hatch fill faces of a view in TechDraw, but can't figure out how to solid color fill.
I'm using version 0.18 if that helps.
Thank you.

[chrisb]

If you have seen such things here it was probably not the TechDraw view which was coloured, it was rather an image included.

[wandererfan]

I can hatch fill faces of a view in TechDraw, but can't figure out how to solid color fill.

Use the "solid.svg" hatch pattern.

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[LorTay]

I see what you mean. I was able to get that to work.
The only problem is that manually selecting faces to add fill color is very tedious.
Is it possible to create a view in TechDraw that can be dimensioned and has the original part's color, but without the shading?
Some screenshots to show what I'm thinking:

[wandererfan]

Is it possible to create a view in TechDraw that can be dimensioned and has the original part's color, but without the shading?

Not possible now.

For a view with a single object as the Source, this would be possible. If there are multiple different coloured objects as Source, then this is not possible since there is no way to tell what face on the drawing belongs to which source object.

[Kunda1]

Tickets remaining from this thread:
issue #3572 TechDraw: Easier Color Drawings
issue #3575 TechDraw: Don't recompute on text changes

CC @jango
(please revisit these tickets on the latest v0.20dev (link))

Edit: note that these tickets have been implemented
issue #3573 TechDraw - Hide individual lines in the drawing
issue #3574 TechDraw: Highlight individual lines