Many of todays popular softwares have built in Dark Mode switches. Whether you're using Google Chrome, Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Facebook, KZfaq, etc, etc, they all have a switch to make Dark Mode an easy switch. The draw back being you are stuck with their color options for this Dark Mode.
Now there isn't an all encompassing switch in Mastercam to make the interface darker. Which is fine as there are still options to change to a dark mode feel. There's just a couple steps to do so.
First, changing the background color. This is done in the Configuration. You can leave the default gradient option or disable that and go with a single dark color. Black is good but I find pure black can be a bit too dark so I usually use a custom color that is just a tab lighter.
Second, the menu items. This can be done through the Theme setting. Not too many option here but at least there is a Dark Grey that seems to work nicely.
Lastly, the managers. Here we can again select a background color. I will suggest a slightly lighter than black color. Text and line colors can be chooses as well.
The benefit with these individual customizations is you have much more control over the resulting Dark Mode than just a switch that applies default colors.
0:00 Intro
0:42 Changing the Graphics Background Color
2:18 Changing the Theme Color
2:41 Changing the Managers Color
3:33 Undo the Color Changes
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