I find it overly complicated that an object has three different colors: its material’s color its print color its display color I would love it if one could set the display and print colors to “none” or “material” and see the object rendered in the material’s color in the Shaded view and in printi…

This stuff is set up that way for a reason, it is designed to give people a maximum amount of flexibility to work the way they want. More options sometimes means things get more complicated, that is always the trade-off. But IMO Rhino’s display/print color system is fairly simple to work with. Of…

I am not suggesting that all these color options should be removed from Rhino! I’m only asking whether by default an object or a layer can have only ONE color that’s used in all views, until such time as a different display or print color is needed. :slight_smile: Actually, I realized after writi…

I still don’t know Python, but I tweaked a Python script that I found to operate on layers instead of objects. It works! It’s attached. I’d still like to know if the more automatic functionality I describe can be invoked somehow. Thanks! Christopher SetLayerColorsFromMaterial.py (426 Bytes)

Object Colors - can it be simpler? - #5 by Gijs - Rhino

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