I have box. After assign material it's still box. But after assign different material to some faces, box become 3d body and I can't simple look and change it's size in properties.
How to assign different materials to different faces and box still remain box.
If it is impossible, could I look gizmo size? I need to control sizes of all objects with easy way without annotate.
I would love for the day that ADSK allows users to assign materials to faces and surfaces at the assembly level. I know this can be done at the part level but this practice has it's flaws when trying to have an accurate BOM and Parts List as well as other "issues" when using that method.
Take a plated part for example. At my company our structure of a plated part would look something like this:
raw material - machined part - plated part. I'm sure it;s the same at many other manufacturing companies.
Typically we will have a material spec sheet for the raw material. We will have an IPT and INV dwg of the machined part file. We then place the machine part (IPT) into an IAM to become the plated part. We do this workflow because if we chance any geometry to the child (machined part) it will update and reflect a tthe parent IAM level (plated part). This also keeps out parts list and BOM structure in-line with our MRP system. So this workflow works great for us.
However there is an issue doing it that way. Inventor doesn't allow to assign materials to faces at the assembly level which seems just wrong to me. I kind of understand why they did that but it sure would be nice to be able to assign materials to faces in IAM files. Yes I know I could acheive this by using Derived Component but then my parts list and BOM structure does not reflect the base part. It only reflects the Derived part in my Parts List. Is there a way I'm missing to alter or change the Parts List to pull info of title, part number, etc of the base part rather than the Derived?
Ideally I'd just love for one day INV to allow material assignment to faces and surfaces in the assembly level. It looks rather strange on our drawings where we do a section view of the top l;evel assembly and see parts that are technically made of brass but look to be made of chrome or zinc plating instead because of how we had to assign material to the entire body of the component at the assembly level.
Specifically to Subassembly.LinkWidthAndSlope / I only have Top or Datum options for that sub and if I assign either one in the code set it seems to overwrite all the other subassembly materials such as asphalt, curbs etc...with none set my realisic view has a gap between the back of curb and slope to existing.
Civil 3D 2012 SP1 on Win 7 64-bit SP1
Intel i7-2600kcpu @ 3.4ghz 16mb ram
ATI FirePro V4800
I need som code to assigning a material to a part in VBA.
Dim oApp As Inventor.Application
Set oApp = ThisApplication
Dim oDoc As PartDocument
Set oDoc = oApp.ActiveDocument
Dim oPropsets As PropertySets
Set oPropsets = oDoc.PropertySets
Dim Mat As String
[code]....
but the material is not changed .....
I can not get the colors set to material in the content center. These are the steps I followed.
1) start new .Ipt => finish sketch.
2) go to "material browser"=> click "create new material in document"
3) edit new material => name "Steel Green " => generic color choose green. => OK.
4) add new material to your custom library or to the "Inventor Material Library". (custom library is in project file)
5) close document
6) go to Tools => Editor => Family Table => Column material Properties => choose "Steel Green".
7) Ok, publish OK.
8) new assembly => place from content => get the new material.
9) check properties. Material is Assigned but not the color
When assigning materials to a part in inventor the process is simple, however when one wishes to assign a specific steel type ie ASTM A516 as opposed to just a generic steel then this is where it gets a little more complicated.
This specific steel type will also need to be called up in the parts list relevant to the individual part that it is attached to.
I know that a custom material can be added to the favourites section in the materials library,and this can be done if required.
Have i delved deep enough into the inventor materials library , do the basic steel and others materials ie plastics break down into specific types with their elastic properties,yield stresses etc etc in other words a more comprehensive materials library or is this something that must be created by custom material input.
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installed 32bit AutoCAD Map 3D 2013?
My install fails at the AML 2013 - Low Rez and I can't install Map at all.
I don't think there is an option to no install the Material Library...
Here is my log file from a few minutes ago...
2012/5/29:12:31:55 gluckett PRAGUE Installing Autodesk Material Library 2013 - Low Resolution: ADSK_EULA_STATUS=#1 MUILANG=en-us ADSK_SOURCE_ROOT="C:AutodeskAutoCAD_Map_3D_2013_English_Win_32bit" FILESINUSETEXT="" REBOOT=ReallySuppress ADSK_SETUP_EXE=1
2012/5/29:12:32:47 gluckett PRAGUE Install Autodesk Material Library 2013 - Low Resolution Failed Installation aborted, Result=1603
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