The History Of My Colors
You may have noticed in my examples, that my screen
colors are different from the default settings.  I like the
brighter colors. I'm a long time Mastercam user and I
always thought that a black background was the best
for viewing. But the black seems to limit the colors you
can use to create geometry. Only certain colors look
good on a black background. See my screen here.

I also tried lots of different colors trying to decide what
would work for a variety of parts. Because, as you may
know, lots of different people send me parts. And if you
get black geometry on a black background, It makes doing
your job a little difficult to say the least.  So above all the
other colors for my new settings, the selection of the
background  color was going to be the most important.

Since people draw in white, gray, light gray and light blue,
I knew I couldn't use a standard pallet color for the background.
So I created my own custom color.  The color I use is lighter
than light gray & darker than white.  The example below will
show you how to create custom colors and change your
defaults.

Changing Your System Colors

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On the System Configuration menu, select the Screen tab
(the red dot shown below is to help you locate the tab).

Select the System Colors button (see the red dot)

 

This will display all of the items you can change the colors for.
Let's change the background color.
Select "Graphics Background Color"
and press the multi-color button.

 

As a default the color pallette will display the 16 basic colors.
Press the 16/256 button to expand the pallette.

 

Now you can select any color you want. For this example
we'll create a new color to be used for the background.
Select the color square shown below in the black circle (#23)
and then press the Customize button (red dot).

Set the Red, Green & Blue values as shown
below and press  OK   &   OK  again.

Now you can set the rest of the colors.

BE CAREFUL!!!  You can come up with some
color combinations that are really awful.

I strongly urge you to use the colors shown below.

Also: If your well versed in using a text editor with
cut and paste functions, just cut the section shown
below and paste it into you  MILL8.CFG   file,
replacing the  [system colors]  section that's there.

This one's for Mill8.cfg
[system colors]
100. Primary text color? 0
101. Secondary text color? 0
102. Graphics window background color? 23
103. Prompt window background color? 33
104. Menu window background color? 23
105. Main color? 9
107. Select color? 135
108. Group color? 12
109. Result color? 13
110. System origin color? 6
111. Construction origin color? 10
112. Tool origin color? 11
113. Surface background color? 8
114. Toolpath color? 11
115. Menu toggle color? 4
116. Raw cut motion color? 8
117. Surface motion color? 12
118. Edge motion color? 3
124. Solid face select color? 12
125. Solid edge select color? 3
126. Draft phantom color? 8
127. Draft dirty color? 12
128. Auto-Highlight color? 2
129. Mill stock color? 12

[user-defined colors]
3323. Color 23? 14474460
 
 

This one's for Lathe8.cfg
[system colors]
100. Primary text color? 0
101. Secondary text color? 0
102. Graphics window background color? 23
103. Prompt window background color? 33
104. Menu window background color? 23
105. Main color? 9
107. Select color? 135
108. Group color? 12
109. Result color? 13
110. System origin color? 6
111. Construction origin color? 10
112. Tool origin color? 11
113. Surface background color? 8
114. Toolpath color? 11
115. Menu toggle color? 4
116. Raw cut motion color? 8
117. Surface motion color? 12
118. Edge motion color? 3
124. Solid face select color? 12
125. Solid edge select color? 3
126. Draft phantom color? 8
127. Draft dirty color? 12
128. Auto-Highlight color? 2
129. Mill stock color? 12

[user-defined colors]
3323. Color 23? 14474460
 
 

This one's for Wire8.cfg
[system colors]
100. Primary text color? 0
101. Secondary text color? 0
102. Graphics window background color? 23
103. Prompt window background color? 33
104. Menu window background color? 23
105. Main color? 9
107. Select color? 135
108. Group color? 12
109. Result color? 13
110. System origin color? 6
111. Construction origin color? 10
112. Tool origin color? 11
113. Surface background color? 8
114. Toolpath color? 11
115. Menu toggle color? 4
119. Wirepath UV color? 13
120. STCW Start Position color? 5
121. STCW Thread Position color? 12
122. STCW Cut Position color? 100
123. STCW Work Origin color? 3
124. Solid face select color? 12
125. Solid edge select color? 3
126. Draft phantom color? 8
127. Draft dirty color? 12
128. Auto-Highlight color? 2
129. Mill stock color? 12
130. Stop symbol color? 12
131. Attention symbol color? 136

[user-defined colors]
3323. Color 23? 14474460