General Program Information

Basics - Colors

Within AutoCAD different colors are used to shade the various components (ie. pipes and tanks) of the water treatment plants. These colors are defined using a RGB color composite. The RGB color composite represents the color additive system which mixes various amounts of Red, Blue, and Green light to produce other colors. Each color is represented by a 3 by 1 matrix in which X = Red, Y = Green and Z = Blue. The number listed represents one of 256 shades for a particular color from 0 to 255 in terms of intensity, where 0 represents the least intensity and 255 represents the highest intensity. For example, R=0 G=0 B=0 would produce black while R=255 G=255 B=255 would produce white.