cycle new part color

[nan battaglia]

In Direct Modeling 17.0 there was a lisp file that I had to cycle a new part color when you created a new part. Now that I'm using 18.1, I can't seem to get that lsip file to work. Anyone have any ideas or know of a way to create a new color with every new part without having to go to each part and change it's color after it is created.
Thanks

[Andy Poulsen]

It turns out Nan's problem was a common one with people who move lisp code to v18 from previous versions: Many (or all!) of the toolbox buttons disappear!

Fortunately, it's an easy fix: In the dialog definitions, make sure the line

:toolbox-button t

is part of each dialog's definition.

For example, if you have a dialog whose definition starts like this:

(sd-defdialog 'my_dialog
  :variables
  '((my-var :value-type :number 
     ....

just change it to add that line, like this:

(sd-defdialog 'my_dialog
  :toolbox-button t
  :variables
  '((my-var :value-type :number 
     ....

and you should be all set!

Good luck!

andy