Displaying and Editing Bodies Properties

This task shows how to display and edit bodies properties. To know how to edit the graphic properties of a body refer to the Infrastructure documentation, Displaying and Editing Graphic Properties.

To perform this scenario, for example you can open the Assemble1.CATPart document.

Select Body.1 in the specification tree.

Select the Edit->Properties command or select the Properties command on the contextual menu.

The Properties dialog box displays, containing two tabs concerning bodies:

	Feature Properties
	Graphic

The Feature Properties tab displays the name of the body. This name is editable if the part is not read only. Enter 'Assemble1' in the Name field. The new name appears in the specification tree.

The application also displays the date of creation and of the last modification.

Click the Graphic tab to change the color of the body.

The graphic properties available for editing are:

	Fill Color (colors the current object) and transparency
	Edge Color, Line type and Weight
	Line and Curve Color, Line type and Weight
	Point Color and Symbol
	Show and Pick attributes
	Set as default

To have details about how to change graphic properties, please refer to CATIA- Infrastructure User's Guide Version 5.

Before applying a color to a body, remember that:

	The features you create within a body take on the color of this body, whatever it is.
	When applying a color to a feature, all the faces of this feature take on this color.
	The color you apply to a face prevails over the other colors defined for features and bodies.

The faces generated by any transformation take on the color of the body, as shown in the following example.

Before

The body is composed of a pink pad and of a yellow pocket

After

Both faces the pattern has generated, i.e. the front face and the cylindrical face take on the color of the body which was CATIA default color.

The first three rules mentioned above apply when associating bodies.

Click OK.

CATIA takes these modifications into account and displays the new body name.