Macro Colorize

[TheMarkster]

With this macro you can set individual colors and transparency levels of faces, edges, and points. Select the subobjects and run the macro. The color picker dialog comes up:

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Select the color and alpha level as desired, and press okay.

Special note on alpha: the default 255 would make the color fully transparent, which is not what will be typically wanted, so I inverted this value to mean fully opaque and 0 = fully transparent.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Macro_Colorize

Notice with this cube some of the edges are red and some are default black:

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[TheMarkster]

Works with sketches, too, but not with the editor open. I guess the editor overrides those colors, but this is a good thing because edge color inside the editor gives a lot of useful information.

[TheMarkster]

This can be useful for peeking inside a solid, by making one or more faces transparent and setting the ViewObject Lighting property to Two side.

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[HoWil]

This can be useful for peeking inside a solid, by making one or more faces transparent and setting the ViewObject Lighting property to Two side.

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Can this be used to select inner faces for FEM wb as described e.g. here https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 70#p146370?

[TheMarkster]

The transparent face still gets preselected when the mouse is hovered over it, and although the preselection is only semi-transparent it still blocks you from selecting objects behind it. I tried turning off color on preselection, but it still blocks you from selecting another face from the inside.

[mario52]

Hi

maybe
Macro_FC_element_selector
Macro_Mouse_over_cb

mario