topic NCS Colour Palette in Project data & BIM

NCS Colour Palette

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:25:32 GMT

Hi - does anybody know what happened to the ncs colour palette ?

Mention of it back in 2000:
https://graphisoft.com/es/press-releases/ncs

And half a mention on the forum a few years back.

It sounds like its some sort of plugin....

Re: NCS Colour Palette

BCT02 — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:22:31 GMT

A few days ago, I've searched that too. We usually decide our facade colors from various RAL or NCS catalogs and it would be awesome that if we can import NCS colors like RAL goodies. I've even considered writing an e-mail to NCS because they have several templates for AutoCAD, PS, and Illustrator...

I found a user guide and some .pdf installation documents and 1-2 screenshots about that plugin, and some info as that plugin had a price tag on it; but not the plugin itself...

We just need some simple color importer like RAL, not re-discover NCS colors on the color triangle (or whatever they call their system).

Re: NCS Colour Palette

Aaron Bourgoin — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:45:57 GMT

it was a "For Sale" item back in the 90s. Not sure when it disappeared, but I haven't heard anything about it for a very long time.

Re: NCS Colour Palette

Erwin Edel — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:15:11 GMT

For RAL colours I look up the RGB value online and create my own surface. I imagine for NCS it would be equally simple.

https://encycolorpedia.com is my friend in this regard.

Re: NCS Colour Palette

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:18:54 GMT

Erwin wrote:
For RAL colours I look up the RGB value online and create my own surface.

Why not just use the RAL Add-On?

Re: NCS Colour Palette

Erwin Edel — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 06:25:09 GMT

Because it creates rubbish surfaces for renders in terms of reflective qualities etc