To make it easier for the user to recognize and manage the parts, a coloring system known as light lines is implemented.

In their normal operation, the active part  is displayed with its original colors, the parts at a higher or equal hierarchical level are colored purple  (color 202), while those at a lower hierarchical level are colored light blue  (color 144).

With the " Bright Lines " command on the status bar you can disable or set the bright lines to color with the same color all the geometries not aggregated to the active part.

These options work at the application-wide level. This means that you cannot set the behavior of light lines differently between multiple drawings opened in the same CAD.

Through the application options menu you can change the colors used for coloring.

In addition to the basic management, it is possible to force the color of the basic light lines with the Top_Color_Prt  and Top_NewPrtSlColor commands

In addition to the color of the light lines, the brightness can also be set to " darken " parts other than the activated one.

This mechanic differs from the CAD platform's LAYLOCKFADECTL settings in that it is not based on the layer locking state.

The light lines are a feature related  to the visualization only . Under normal conditions, when printing or opening the drawing in a CAD without the application, the geometries appear with their original colors .

Print light lines

To make the drawing geometries print with the color of the light lines, you can act from the CAD status bar, changing the setting of the " Print Light Lines " variable.

This is a multi-level option:

Off : Default setting, bright lines are ignored when printing.

On : The drawing will be printed exactly as it appears on the screen.

Forced Only : Geometry will be printed with the highlight color if it has been forced by the user, otherwise with the native colors.

Forced or Black : Geometry will be printed with the color of the light lines if it has been forced by the user. Parts that have not been forced will be considered black.

Note

To work around the problem of different results depending on the active part, you can force the activation of the TOP part before printing from the Qs Mechanical Suite options menu.

Saving light lines

To make the color of the light lines visible to those who do not have the Qs Mechanical Suite installed, you can force the saving  of the color of the light lines . In fact, when this option is active, when saving the geometries are physically colored with the color with which we see them displayed. Depending on the size of the drawing, this operation can take a long time.

Note

Once the saving is complete, the coloring operation is canceled: this causes the drawing in the CAD to be marked as unsaved.