### Using the Color Selection Dialog Box

The Color Selection dialog box appears whenever you click on a button that lets you modify the color of an object property or some other element in the software. In some cases it appears embedded inside of a larger dialog box.

Selecting a New Color

The Dimension Color dialog box provides a number of ways to define the color for the currently selected tolerance. The easiest way to choose a new color for the currently selected tolerance zone is to simply click on the desired hue from the grid of available colors.

If you want a color or hue that is not available on the grid, hover your mouse over the grid and click the flip button when it appears in the top right corner of the dialog box.

The grid flips over to display a Color Picker and Color Slider. You can then use the Color Picker after using the Color Slider to get the base color. Additional boxes allow you to specify numerically an exact color out of the many possible combinations.

The following graphic describes these areas of the dialog box:

1. Color Picker. This area shows all the gradations or hues from black to white within the selected base color. To choose your color, simply click on the hue you want within the Color Picker. It will appear in the Selected Color box.

2. Color Slider. This chooses a base color.

3. Selected Color. This area shows the currently selected color that will be used. It also contains a read-only field displaying the RGB values as hexadecimal number with the # prefix to define the color. 0 to 255 is translated as 00 to FF in hexadecimal.

4. s RGB Boxes. These (R)ed, (G)reen (B)lue boxes allow you to mix any color by typing in the intensity of the R, G, or B color value by using numbers between 0 and 255 for each box. (A)lpha controls the transparency of the pixels when items using this color are overlaid on top of other colors: 0 is completely invisible. 255 is completely opaque.