### Understanding Feature Colors

In some charts and tabs feature variables will appear as color-coded bordered items to reflect the tolerance zone within which each item falls (or out of tolerance items).

FOR COLORS IN FEATURE VARIABLE LIST (old documentation): In the side bar's Feature Variable list and in other charts and tabs, feature variables will appear as color-coded bordered items to reflect the tolerance zone within which each item falls (or out of tolerance items).

Note: Currently, the colors used in Datapage+ are completely independent of the dimension color scheme used in PC-DMIS.

Sample Colors in the Feature Variable List Sample Colors in the Feature Monitor Tab | The colors used correspond to the color-coded tolerance zones specified in the Dimension Color dialog box, accessible from the Tools | Dimension Color menu item. Your colors may be different than those displayed in the screen captures in this documentation.

Dimension Color dialog box

To see what the colors represent, select the drop down list in this dialog box.

By default, there is a single tolerance zone, bounded by negative and positive out of tolerance zones:

- Out of 100% of Negative Tolerance.

- 0-100% of tolerance.

- Out of 100% of Positive Tolerance.

For example, in this image the green zone is the single tolerances zone:

Sample drop down list with a single (green color) tolerance zone

The current colors and tolerance zones will also appear in a colored bar that exists on some reports. This is called a "color map".

Sample Color Map with four tolerance zones

For information on the color map see, "Moving and Sizing the Color Map".

Changing the Tolerance Zones

In the Number of Tolerance Zones box, you can add additional zones. Type the number of zones and Datapage+ will divide up the in-tolerance percentage of 100 among those zones. So, if you changed the zone to 4, there would be four zones of 25% each: 0-25%, 25-50%, 50-75%, and 75-100%.

Sample drop down with four tolerance zones

The On tolerance check box changes "Out of 100% of Negative Tolerance" to "On 100% Tolerance".

Selecting a New Color

See the "Using the Color Selection Dialog Box" topic.

Show Colors in Two Directions

The Show Colors in Two Directions check box determines whether or not your tolerance zones for the current part program displays the same color range in two directions, one heading towards the Positive Out of Tolerance range and the other heading towards the Negative Out of Tolerance range. This effectively expands the lower dimension color range to –Tol instead of zero. You can then define the negative dimension colors and positive dimension colors separately.

Example of Four Tolerance Zones Showing Colors in Two Directions with Custom Colors

Buttons

Default - Sets the default color to the current selection and tolerance zone scheme for other parts.

Save - Saves the current color and tolerance zone scheme so that you can use them again in subsequent uses of the software.

OK - Utilizes the currently selected color scheme for the current session. If you log out and log back in, the previous colors will be used unless you click Save.