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Remove & replace palette colours.

Click a chip to paint with it. Hover any chip and there's an × to remove it. Right-click a painted face on the model and you can swap one colour for another across the whole mesh.

// What it does

Click a chip to make it the active colour. The first nine chips map to number keys 19.

Hover a chip → click × to remove that colour. Every face painted with it reverts to unpainted. Undo-able.

Right-click a painted face → Replace this colour → current swaps that colour for the active palette colour everywhere on the model, in one undo step.

// When to use it
  • Switching the active colour mid-paint — click a chip or press its number key (19).
  • Pruning a palette down to just what you'll print with.
  • Swapping a colour scheme: paint with placeholder colours first, then right-click a painted face → Replace this colour → current to map each to a real filament at the end.
// How to use it
  1. Activate: click a chip, or press its number key. It becomes the colour you paint with.
  2. Remove: hover a chip → click ×. Every face of that colour reverts to unpainted.
  3. Bulk replace: make the new colour active, then right-click a face painted in the old colour → Replace this colour → current. One undo step.
// Tips
  • Removed by accident? The faces are unpainted, not gone — Ctrl+Z to undo.
  • Replace affects every face of that colour. If you only wanted one face, use Pick + repaint.
  • Adding colours lives elsewhere. See Add from library + custom and Theme palettes.

Try removing & replacing colours on the demo robot.

Open the painter and have a play.

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