Objects can be given any color, or painted, which you can use for any purpose. You can use the color of an object for organizational purposes, to assign special meaning to an object, or simply to make it look good. It’s up to you to decide. Each object has its own saved color but the paint roller icon in the Display section can be used to apply a single color to a selection of items at one time.
To change the color of a selection of items select the Color Objects button
SA uses the concept of a working color. Every time a new object is created, it is given a color. The color that is assigned is the current—or working—color. Think of the working color as an open can of paint— each object you create is painted, and the working color is used for that painting job. The Working Color is visible on the status bar at the bottom of the graphic window.
By default, the working color is set to automatically increment. That is, when an object is created and assigned a color, the next color in a list of 13 random colors is automatically made the working color. The result of this is that repeated object creation results in objects of different colors so that they are more clearly distinguishable in the graphical view.
Successive creation of multiple objects in different colors may be a behavior that you like—or, depending on what you’re doing, it may not. For instance, you may wish to create a number of nominal objects all of the same color, using the assigned color as a cue that the objects are in their nominal configuration. In this situation, the automatically incrementing working color is not desirable. You can disable working color auto-increment so that the current color remains the working color until you explicitly change it.
The More Colors button can be used to add more colors to the current working colors list.