Decoupling appearance on part occurrences

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Hello

I want to put an appearance color on a surface of a part present in an assembly. However, I have several occurrences of this same piece in my assembly. When I change the appearance, it changes on all occurrences in my assembly.

Is it possible to apply an appearance to a surface of a component without it applying it to all occurrences of that part? If so, how can I do it?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards

Etienne

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Solution 1: Apply your appearance at the assembly level comprising the part and not at the part level.
Solution 2: Create a config of the part with the appearance in the config and modify the config of the part in the assembly.

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Thank you for your answer.

Solution 1 will apply the appearance to the whole room, not just to one surface in my room, right?

Solution 2 may be time-consuming in my case, because it would have to be done on a lot of parts. And it's not always the same surface that I need to color.

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Exact after verification at the level of the face is repeated on all occurrences and at the level of the piece it is the complete piece that changes color.
Only solution 2 remains, if I'm not mistaken. Even if it's far from being the easiest solution...

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Hello

The solution lies in display states (@sbadenis no need to create a configuration)

  1. Create a new display state for your part;

  2. Apply the appearance to the desired face by selecting " this display state" in the " display state" section

  3. Repeat these first 2 operations for as many colors as you want to apply to the face in question.

In the assembly now:
For each of the occurrences of the parts, right-click > component property
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then select the desired display.
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Hello

A quick solution is to add an appearance by clicking in the transparency column at the room level, choose its color and then uncheck the transparency, the color remains, it also works with component repetitions the disadvantage is that you can't choose one face but the whole part...

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Hello
This solution does not work?
Fred

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The problem is that the color also spreads to other occurrences of the same assembly, which @epitiot don't want.

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As silver_surfer said, I also think that this is the only solution to answer his problem.