Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now save color mapping definitions to the model database, to an output database, or to an XML file. This enhancement provides an easier method for saving and reusing color mappings than in earlier releases.
Description: By default, the color mappings you specify to distinguish between components in your model persist only for your current session and only in the viewport in which you define them. In earlier releases you could save color mappings only by creating a color macro that recorded your color mapping definitions.
Abaqus/CAE now includes color mappings among the session objects and options that you can save and reuse using the Save Session Objects & Options and Load Session Objects & Options dialog boxes. This enhancement streamlines the process of saving and loading color mappings by including this step with the maintenance of other settings in your session.
When you save color mappings as session options, Abaqus/CAE records the settings currently displayed in the Color Code dialog box only. For example, if the dialog box displays color mappings for part instances, only the mappings you specified for part instances are recorded to the model database, output database, or file.
All modules:
File
Save Session Objects or Load Session Objects: Color Mapping