Change colors or layers based on materials..

[Eigil]

Hello

 

I'm looking for a way to change the colors of an object based on the objects material. What I've learned is that the objects (or enteties? I mean mesh/solid/face or similar) consists of colors, materials and textures.

 

If every mesh had its color I would run this script I've found called COL2LAY which puts everything on different layers based on their indexcolor.

 

The reason for this is that I need texturize everything in a another Autocad application called Novapoint, and this texturizing is based on layers (I know it sounds inconvinient, it is!)

 

I'm importing skp files from google warehouse with the autodesk plug-in "skp-import" and my dwg-models have material and texture, but everything is on layer 0 and color white or bylayer..

 

What makes it more difficult is that parts of the object have material "byblock"..

 

I really apprieciate help! Sorry for my awkward english:oops:

 

[irneb]

Welcome to Cad Tutor.

 

Each entity with a material applied to it would have a 347 DXF code. This contains the ename referring to the material record in the materials dictionary. So you can then use the 1 dxf code to get that material's name. From there it's much the same as the col2lay function.

 

About the byblock material, that's a near impossible "fix". What happens if there are 2 copies of the same block, but different materials? You'd need to explode the blocks and apply the material individually to each.

[Eigil]

Thank you for replying. I found another way around this. I export the dwg to FBX and import the FBX back into dwg. Then every mesh with material will have a color which looks similar to the material. Meshes with material byblock also seems to be dissolved into seperate colors, each color similar to the material.

[irneb]

That does seem a lot simpler yes. I was looking for something older (i.e. export to 3DS) which had similar functionality, but it seems ACad 2013 can't export to 3DS any-more.