Customizing Colors in Plots and Charts

You can customize the color of numerous components displayed in the X-Y Plots Viewer.

You can save your customized colors on a per plot basis. These custom colors persist, whether you return to the plot in the same session or save and reopen the model. Each user-defined plot can have its own custom color settings.

Before you begin: Open an existing X-Y plot from the Feature Manager, or create a new X-Y plot.
See Also
Customizing the X-Y Plots Viewer
Customizing the Appearance of Charts
Customizing the Appearance of a Curve and Axes
  1. From the X-Y Plots Viewer, select Plot Options .
    The Options dialog box appears.
  2. From the list of options, select an option (for example, Plot, Chart, or Grid).
  3. Click the color swatch for the entity whose color you want to customize.
    The Change Color dialog box opens.
  4. You can assign a custom color to your selected entity in multiple ways:
    • From the Custom Colors Palette tab, select a hexadecimal designated color.
    • From the Web Colors Palette tab, select a color shade with a descriptive name (for example, Forest Green or Lime Green).
    • From the Sliders tab, select a color model (RGB, HSV, or HSL) and adjust each slider to select a hue. RGB is the Red Green Blue standard additive color model, HSV is Hue Saturation Value, and HSL is Hue Saturation Luminosity.
    • From the Color Wheel tab, drag the handle to select a hue. The triangle rotates within the color wheel. Move the color picker within the triangle to add tint or shade.
    • From the Color Square tab, move the color picker within a color family to select a hue; adjust the slider to change the saturation.
    The entity changes color to the new custom color.
  5. To save a custom color for future selections, expand Custom Colors and click Add.
    The new color is assigned to one of the 10 color swatches.
  6. Once a custom color is assigned to the color swatch, you can click the swatch, and click Apply to apply the custom color to that entity.
  7. Click Reset to clear the custom color swatches.