# Colorizer

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The Colorizer tools can help you visually analyze your Inventor assembly, so you can quickly check, e.g., the material assignment of your components, the mass of individual parts, the thickness of sheet metal components, one-step identify who designed all of the assembly components or visualize any component iProperty you want. Last but not least, if needed, you can just change the components' appearance to random colors to better distinguish them in the assembly.

The Colorizer offers two modes to visualize iProperties: changing the appearance or component highlighting. All changes to the appearance are reversible.

Moreover, appearance changes can be saved into view representations.

The Colorizer is available in the assembly environment only.

## Basic Mode

In basic mode, predefined commands can be used to display:

* Random colors (appearance change),
* Colors by Material (appearance change),
* Mass (highlighting only).

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Set colors by Material" %}

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{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Highlight by Mass" %}

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{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Random colors" %}

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{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Advanced Mode

In Advanced mode, using the "Set colors" command, it is possible to choose any combination of parameters to create the required visualization.

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A breakdown of options that can be set manually is below. By clicking a three-dot button, additional parameters like iProperty name or a color seed can be set.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Level" %}

* First level
* Each part
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Grouping" %}

* Material
* Volume
* Mass
* Property
  * Property Name
    * (enter the property name corresponding to the Property Set here)
  * Property Set
    * Summary Information
    * Document Summary Information
    * Design Tracking Properties
    * User Defined Properties
      {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Style" %}

* Random colors
  * Seed (-2147483648 to 2147483647)
* Heatmap
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Method" %}

* Highlight only
* Change appearance
  {% endtab %}
  {% endtabs %}

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## Appearance Changes Reset

To reset the appearance of components to a default state, click the Cleanup colors command.

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