Solid Colours

Using either Ranges or Expression, you can choose to colour your solids based on any property you choose, rather than just colour solids purely by their process. The colours in a Custom Colour Set will be updated when any property they are based on is changed, so if you linked a Custom Solid Colour to a Post Schedule Task you would get updated colours on each Schedule Run!

The example below shows the importance of the order of entries (once a Solid picks up a colour it won't be overriden by subsequent entries:

This Colour Set reads Fields that are built from a Destination Table PST:

On the Home tab, in the View group: Select Solid Colours to apply a colour set to the Source and/or Destination solids currently displayed in the Animation window.

Note that you can set also colours for solids from the Animation tab of the Scenario Settings window. When you save an Animation View, Colour Set settings are also saved as part of the Animation Layout. See: Reset View

Solid Colour Sets

Define (and Apply) a Colour Set to Solids

Click on the ellipsis [...] to define a Colour Set and apply it to the Source/Destination solids in the Animation window.

Right-click on the Solid Colours node and select an Add option: