Preferences: Colors - Settings

Use the Colors - Settings sub-menu to set your color preferences for various objects.

Fill Pieces

Determines which pieces will be filled with color on screen.

Show The Bounding Box With The Filling

Displays the selected piece with a bounding box. When no pieces are filled with color (option None), the bounding box will always appear on the selected piece.

Fill A Button That Is Set As Drill

When the Drill command is attached to a button, the button is displayed with a filling color.

Filling Method

Allows you to choose from 4 different filling methods:

By Filling Color
By Material
By Piece Name
By Quality

Contour Line

Allows you to choose the color of the contour in four different ways:

By Size Name
By Size Location. This is a new option in version 10, designed to set fixed colors for the base size, the largest size and smallest size regardless of their names, which may change from file to file. By using the Size Location preference you make sure that the contour line of the base size will always have the same color.
By Piece Name. This option is available when there are no sizes in the style.
By Command

Highlight A Selected Segment

Highlights a selected segment. The color of the highlighted segment is set in Colors > General.