Part template appearance default

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I have remade our templates in sw2025, but I have a problem managing the default part template appearance.

the appearance tab is initially empty and the top node of the feature tree has a gray circle icon.

I apply a material to the part and the circle switches to the material color.

That is ok.

When I create a simple extrusion a gray color is applied to it ignoring the top node, material driven setting.

I know that SW uses the face, body, feature, part, material priority order, but literally nothing was setup here. And still somehow the features get their appearance entry upon creation.

I could just delete the feature appearance from the appearance tab, but making a new feature, create a new feature entry in the appearance tab, same with RMB and delete all visual state appearance (or whatever is called in the english version, sorry if the name is inaccurate) .

how could I reset a PRTDOT appeareance to stick by default to the material color only?

I tried some vba snippets as well, but probably I am just missing the property messing with the appearance creation order…

thank you In advance.

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To reset the appearance to the default it must be done from document properties.

under the tab governing “model display” there is a button in the upper part of the dialog, that allow to reset everything related to both appearance colors and their priority at creation time.

To check what that button does, I dumped our templates property before and after the reset and that button seems to reset all the appearance colors under “model display” and the hatching settings and default density under “material properties”.

there is no flag, value or other parameter that govern how appearances behave, in terms of priority or at creation so it could be a template internal variable and the above reset is the only way to trigger it.

part color is now the default on feature creation and it follows the material, the body, the feature and face order.