- [Instructor] A great enhancement to SolidWorks 2021
is the ability to select colors from other applications.
Now, over here on the screen
you can see I've got a part here,
that's a clear plastic piece.
And I want to add a color to that band.
The color I'm looking for is this beautiful green color
on this Lamborghini.
So, I just went to the website and I'm just going to show you
I can pick up a a color from website.
It could be an Adobe illustrator,
it could be any graphics program you have,
if you want to try to match colors together
but I'm just going to pick a color from this car here.
So what you're going to do is you're going to head up here
to your Edit Appearance, click on that.
And you're going to get this little view palette here
that shows, you know, the different colors you can pick,
your standard colors here.
You can also pick from over here
but notice we have this little eyedropper here.
If you click on the dropper,
you actually have to hold it down
and notice if you go over this,
the Lamborghini over here, you can see it,
you know, the little square,
there's changing colors as I go over what's on the screen.
So you can get the color you're kind of looking for.
Hey, that one looks cool.
Or maybe over here, click on that.
And that will automatically bring that color in here.
And notice the color now is right here
that we pick from the site on this other website over here.
Once you've done that,
then I can go ahead and expand that back out.
And you can see that this is that color.
Of course we have all the other controls we have right here.
So right here, I've got this semi-transparent color.
Of course you can change that to something else.
Your illumination, you can get into here
and change your luminosity,
transparency amount if you didn't want that
to be transparent at all,
you just wanted to be straight up Lamborghini color.
Here it is.
That looks pretty cool.
And then also,
if you go back over here to the Basic window,
notice I can save that as a swatch.
So add that swatch and notice that shows up right here,
so that I can use that throughout the rest of my design.
So it's really nice when you're working on like
maybe packaging or just trying to match products
from an older version of our product to a new version.
You just want to make sure you get the exact same color.
Of course, this is not exact, it's just picking a web color
but it does give you a nice way to kind of apply
those colors and create your own palette here.
And then, once you've got a palette of colors
that you're using for your product,
you can then use those across all of your products
as a nice visual representation.
And, of course, all that will flow into,
if you're going to be rendering or doing anything else
with these products in the future.
Anyways, it's a real nice update
or an addition that they've added for SolidWorks 2021.