Color Mapping between NX2 and NX3

Posted on Sep 26th, 2005

NX3 introduces a new color pallete, Here is the conversion

Prior to NX3 the original 15 UG colors where in the color pallete as 1 -> 15, In NX3 the color pallete is completely redone to use a standard color pallete, which included moving the original 15 colors into the correct location and changing the RGB value to match the standard colors.

Map old color index to new index

NX2	Name	NX3
1	BLUE	211
2	GREEN	36
3	CYAN	31
4	RED	186
5	MAGENTA	181
6	YELLOW	6
7	WHITE	1
8	OLIVE	137
9	PINK	112
10	BROWN	167
11	ORANGE	114
12	PURPLE	202
13	DARK-RED	198
14	AQUAMARINE	100
15	GRAY	130

NX3 ships with two color pallete file ugcolor.cdf and ugcolor_nx2.cdf. These files are located at UGII_BASE_DIR\ugii\

For example: C:\Program Files\UGS\nx3\UGII\ugcolor.cdf -or- ugcolor_nx2.cdf

These files are simple ascii text files with RGB values. When you compare the two files you will notice the values in the NX3 file are rounded to one place decimal value.