Just throwing stuff out there. Is there a way to make visible most anything ( curve, surf.)and lock it while making it visible (highlighted)? Maybe not the default yellow , but another color of choice. Thanks , Mark
You can do that now - in any display mode you can assign the color of your choice to locked objects.
–Mitch
Maybe a simpler way of saying what I wanted to say was " visable and locked" a way of seeing things without them being active. Is that what you say can be done? Thank you Mitch for replying.–Mark
Well locked objects are visible, that’s the point of locking them and not hiding them. The default is that locked objects are grayed out and surfaces become ghosted transparent - but all that can be changed in the display modes.
–Mitch
I will look into that thanks again
Hi Mitch, I went to the options as you have shown. It works as you say. What I was wanting to do is have a button (macro ?) and have it highlight a given object as well as make it inactive(locked) , with a special color. When finished with that need Unclivk it and move to the next
Hi Mitch, I went to the options as you have shown. It works as you say. What I was wanting to do is have a button (macro ?) and have it highlight a given object as well as make it inactive(locked) , with a special color. When finished with that need Unclivk it and move to the next
Think I got the gang of it. Thanks again
The problem is that you can only have one locked object color. If you want a second, special locked color that is different, that’s fairly difficult. It might be possible with some workarounds, but they may not be very robust. For example, with your button and a simple script, one could lock the object, store its original color and give it the special lock color. Another button could reverse the action, unlocking the object and returning its original color. The fragile part of this operation is if you happen to unlock the object with the normal unlock function instead of the “special unlock” button, it would not revert to its original color.
There might be some other more complicated to program workarounds using a display conduit, but again I think they might not be all that robust.
–Mitch