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Changing the Color of Piping for the Navisworks Model

September 19, 2013

A customer asked if there was a way to change the color of HydraPipes to red for the Navis coordination drawing. There are two ways to do this:

Option 1: After you go to 3D, select everything in your model (yes, everything) and right-click and pick Properties. Then, pick the top drop down list and select HYDRAPIPE (below). Now pick the edit box in the TrueColor line and set it to Red

Option 2: Open the piping model in Navis (assuming you have Navis) and then pick the Selection Tree. Next, right click on the file name and for to Override Item. Override Color and pick Red.

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