Select the Edit | Graphic Display Window | Dimension Colors menu option to open the Edit Dimension Colors dialog box. This dialog box defines the colors and tolerance zones for your entire tolerance band.
You can also right-click the Dimension Colors Bar that is visible in the Graphic Display window to open the Edit Dimension Colors dialog box.
Edit Dimension Colors dialog box
Defining Dimension Colors
Set the Tolerance zone multiplier value as needed.
Type a value in the Number of tolerance zones box to define the number of tolerance zones.
If desired, select the Show colors in two directions check box to extend your color range to the -Tol value.
Pick the colors for the tolerance zones in one of two ways:
Method 1 - Select each tolerance zone one at a time from the tolerance zone drop-down list, and click the Edit button to set a specific color for each zone.
Method 2 - Use the color wheel to select the start and end tolerance zone colors, and allow PC-DMIS to define colors for the other zones.
Click Apply Colors.
Modify the options for the Dimension colors bar as desired.
Click OK.
Dialog Box Description
Tolerance zone multiplier
- This value increases the negative and positive tolerance by the percentage
specified. This value provides you with greater control over the tolerance
range for your tolerance zone. This allows your range of colors to extend
into the out-of-tolerance zone and lets you visually see how much something
is out of tolerance. 
Number of tolerance zones - This value determines the number of tolerance zones for your measurement routine. Tolerance zones divide your entire tolerance band by this number to create the different zones. Each tolerance zone has a unique color associated with it.
Tolerance zones - This list contains all the tolerance zones. You can select a specific zone from this list to manipulate its color in detail. The Dimension Limits item from this list is used to create a border at the absolute positive or negative limit of the feature tolerance. The color used for this corresponds to the color used to draw the tolerance band.
Show colors in two directions
- This option determines whether or not your tolerance zones for the current
measurement routine display 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.
Recall - This button returns the colors to the default setting.
Default - This button overrides the previous default color settings with the current values.
Edit Color - This button opens a Color dialog box so that you can change the color associated with the currently-selected tolerance zone.
Color Wheel - The color wheel
provides you with a quick way to define colors for all your tolerance
zones. It lets you pick the colors for the first and last tolerance zones.
A small x appears on the color wheel for each color selected. The remaining
tolerance zone colors are spaced evenly between the start and end colors.
The direction of the spacing depends upon the option selected.
Clockwise - This option sets the end color to have the same brightness as the start color and spaces the colors in a clockwise direction.
Counter clockwise - This option sets the end color to have the same brightness as the start color, but spaces the colors in the counter-clockwise direction.
Straight line - This option spaces the colors from the start color to the end color, regardless of the brightness, in a straight line direction.
Apply Colors - This button applies any color changes you made without closing the dialog box, which allows you to immediately test your color selection.
Visible - This check box lets you show or hide the Dimension Colors Bar once you click OK. For information on the Dimension Colors Bar, see the "Using the Dimension Colors Window" topic in the "Using Other Windows, Editors, and Tools" chapter.
Default tolerance value - This box lets you change the default tolerance value for the Dimension Colors Bar.
Decimal places - This value
changes the number of decimal places displayed in the Dimension
Colors Bar in the Graphic Display window.
Note that this value does not affect the decimal places used by the Dimension Color Key object used in reporting. The decimal places for the Dimension Color Key object in reporting is hard coded to three decimal places.
Display actual deviation - This option displays tolerances as the actual deviation in the Dimension Colors Bar.
Display % deviation - This option displays tolerances as a percentage of the deviation in the Dimension Colors Bar for the current measurement routine.
