Colours

[phillipr]

Hi All

Is there a way to save the colour palette in powerpcb?

[mdldesign]

One way is to export to ascii an empty file, setup the way you like, to the default startup file - Default.asc in the PowerPCB subdirectory. You can also save these files as different startup files you can use when you start a design (4 layer, 6 layer, etc.).

There is no way, as far as I know, to save only the color template and reuse it on other existing designs. You may be able to edit an ascii output to include only these things, and import it to other designs, but that's just a guess.

Mark

[petehouwen]

In the setup colors dialog, look in the lower irght. In the Configuration box, use the save button.

You will need to save multiple color files for different caofigurations, since it uses layer names (not numbers).

[phillipr]

Pete

the way you described does not save the actual pallete colours only the layers in relation to the box.

i have modified the pallete colours so they are more user friendly so when you route, the second colour is a lighter shade of the primary instead of something completely different that is same colour as your next layerand confusing.

[petehouwen]

Oh.

Missed that 'pallette' word in your post.

[Colorado-PC-Dude]

Phillip,

PowerLogic and PowerPCB should save the color pallet to the .ini files (see example below), although in past revisions I've noticed that cancelling some dialogs would reset the pallet. I've cut the appropriate section out and saved it as a .txt file just in case.

Example:
[Colormap]
Color0=0 0 0
Color1=0 0 200
Color2=0 175 0
Color3=0 175 175
Color4=175 0 0
Color5=175 0 175
Color6=255 128 0
Color7=225 225 225
Color8=125 125 125
Color9=50 100 255
Color10=0 255 0
Color11=0 255 255
Color12=255 0 0
Color13=255 0 255
Color14=255 190 100
Color15=255 255 255
Color16=175 175 175
Color17=0 0 150
Color18=0 125 0
Color19=0 125 125
Color20=125 0 0
Color21=125 0 125
Color22=151 83 0
Color23=90 90 90
Color24=245 245 0
Color25=255 255 160
Color26=0 200 255
Color27=190 255 100
Color28=190 255 255
Color29=255 150 150
Color30=255 175 255
Color31=255 225 135

Warning, this colormap is not the default. Is my own derivation. If you want to try it, please feel free.

Ben

[phillipr]

Thanks to all that replied.
I'll give the colours a go.