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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => Altium Designer => Topic started by: primeval on February 20, 2018, 09:41:41 am

Title: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: primeval on February 20, 2018, 09:41:41 am

Hi all -

Complete Altium newbee here with a question (maybe a silly one?).

Why are the traces and pads and silkscreen in my project coloured black and how do I change the colours? (See attached images)  :-//

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: Ice-Tea on February 20, 2018, 10:33:19 am

Like this...

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: primeval on February 20, 2018, 10:40:24 am

Tried each colour option from that drop down menu with no luck? (see attached)

*Edit - Opened project in Altium 16 and the colours are normal. Still can't work out why Altium 18 displays different?

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: Franck on February 20, 2018, 01:45:01 pm

Hi primeval,
I see that your window is dark, are you using a black theme?
Could it be linked to your issue?
When you use Altium 16, do you use a black theme too?

Franck.

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: primeval on February 20, 2018, 02:02:22 pm

Hi Franck,

I have attached an image of the same board loaded in Altium 16. These are the colours I expected to see.

The dark theme is default with Altium 18, I don't think theres an option to change. Still unsure why the board is displayed in different colours, everything just seems darker?

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: Franck on February 20, 2018, 02:55:56 pm

Quote from: primeval on February 20, 2018, 02:02:22 pm

The dark theme is default with Altium 18, I don't think theres an option to change. Still unsure why the board is displayed in different colours, everything just seems darker?

OK, I didn't know about Altium 18 "charcoal background" (that's the way they call it).

When you are in 3D view, type L and you should get the "View Configuration" panel.
Attached is a picture of my config.

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: primeval on February 20, 2018, 03:13:17 pm

Thanks for the settings, roughly copied them into the "View Configuration" panel. Results attached, no luck, still very dark.

Title: Re: Trace, pad and silkscreen colour??
Post by: Deridex on February 21, 2018, 04:58:57 am

Hm, i'm using AD18 at work and i'm not having such problems.
I can only gues possible reasons for it:
- maybe Singlelayermode (Shift+S) is activated ?
- maybe a optical filter is enabled (gets cleared by Shift+C)
- maybe a displaydriver problem