Rhino 7. Tracing the plan of an old model airplane. The printed line is black, thick, and ragged. The Rhino3D curve I am drawing over the printed line is thin and precise but equally black, and therefore invisible. I can see the Rhino curve if I stop drawing and select it, so that it turns yellow. Or finish the curve by guesswork, assign it to a layer, and change its color to green or red, and then go back and try to edit it.
Looked through File/Properties but found no clearly identified way to change the color of a curve that is in the process of being drawn. There must be some super simple selection I am missing. Thank you for your insights.
While drawing, the curve will take on the layer color of the current layer. You can set the current layer to one with a different color, or you can change the current layer’s color to something else via the layers panel.
Same problem has recurred. Cannot see a black line being traced over a printed black line from a 2002 patent imported into Rhino with the Picture command.
In Rhino 7 it seems you must introduce a material before specifying a color, and so I have chosen a default material and selected yellow. Picked green for a different layer. But working in wireframe, the line I am drawing insists on remaining black regardless of the color associated with the selected layer.
My understanding from our discussion above is that the line being drawn will adopt the color of the chosen layer, including for example the default layer. No luck. The line being drawn remains stubbornly black.
Thank you Pascal. When I compare your layer panel with mine, it appears I am missing a column of checkboxes for Color.
Since we are both looking at the same .3dm file, this suggests our Rhino programs are set up differently. And that there must be a formating site for the layer display panel, where specific columns can be included or excluded in advance. Is this the case?
I am guessing that at some point, somehow, I must have inadvertently excluded the color column.
Hi Michael - if it is not off to the right someplace, just in a different order then mine and hidden, right click in the column header (where it says Layer, Material, etc) and make sure that Color is checked.
Everything works now – Many thanks! While I was at it, I unchecked a couple of headings I rarely use, e.g. Print Width, and in this way opened up some extra workspace on the screen.
Thank you for the change of transparency idea as well, I will try it. Best, Michael
