AutoCAD Inventor :: Equalize Material Appearances Globally In Whole Assembly In 2013?

Dec 9, 2012

In Inventor 2012 user has ability to change the material properties globally.

All parts using certain material will follow the changes made to properties and written to single library. It is clear and predictable.

In Inventor 2013 material properties belong to individual file.

When changes were done to appearance properties of a single part there could be situation when the same material parts in the assembly could have different appearance.

Here is the fact I do not understand and it is contradict to actual reality since the same material with the same standard must look absolutelly the same when switched to Master view.

Seems like to make parts look the same or to change the appearance I should click on each single file and make the same changes to each file.

I do not intend to change the appereance properties in single file on purpose to make problems to myself but I am sure I will take somebody else part and it will be changed due unnecessary reflection or other too much realistic things added in 2013. So finally I will get some sort of parrot collored assembly without clear and most importand easy way to make an order.

So I wish I could equalize all same material parts in apearance view. I do not count the way of clicking each file.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2013 Crashing While Making Changes In New Appearances

May 18, 2012

Having IV2013 periodically crashing while trying to sort out the new appearances.

its never the same actions it could be updating, saving etc. and IV crashes out.

The new appearances have done nothing but cause issues with us since IV2013 was installed. we are all wishing we stayed on IV2012.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Restore Or Fix Default Materials And Appearances In 2013

Oct 21, 2012

How do I go about restoring, repairing or fixing the default materials and appearances that come installed with Inventor Pro 2013?  I have a stand-alone single seat installation.  SP 1.1 has been installed.

I tried to create a custom library of materials and appearances by making a copy of InventorMaterialLibrary.adsklib and renaming it.  I then added new materials.  Depending on project, I get nag messages regarding template styles in conflict with the library styles.  I'm also getting message warning me that the InventorMaterialLibrary can't get loaded.

It is my intent to create a custom materials and appearances library that mimics the as installed InventorMaterialLibrary plus some additional materials and appearances.  The custom library and appearances need to be available to all NEW projects and MAY be added to existing projects without getting the nag message about style conflicts.

I'm also seeing a behavior where the default appearance changes from standard light gray to the first appearance listed in the Autodesk Appearance Library, the 1.5 inch blue tile.  I suspect that's the reason I'm getting the nag message.    How do I fix this?  How do I prevent this from happening in the future?

1) Restoring default as installed material and appearance libraries

2) Creating a custom materials and appearance library to contains ALL items found in the InventorMaterialLibrary plus new materials and appearances

3) Preventing nag style conflict messages

4) Preventing the default appearance of light gray to change to the 1.5 inch blue tile

The machine I'm currently using needs to be ready to go in the morning.

Product Design Suite Ultimate 2012, 2013 & 2014

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2013 Appearances - Adding New Colors In Custom Library

Jan 8, 2013

First, I have not grasped the extent yet of how the new appearance library works.. we don't get crazy with colors, reflections etc.. but we do have a handful of colors that we use on the machines we use.. so instead of using the default appearance library, i made a new appearance library.  All this went well, but i periodically as i need them will add colors to it.. problem is that i'm obviously doing something wrong, because my colors don't always stay in there after i restart Inventor.. and yesterday, i can't seem to keep any of the colors i setup in there to stay.. all i want to do is copy specific colors from inventors appearance library.. drag them into mine, rename them, maybe tweak the color, and then they be there for next time.. why won't they stay?  

The edit pencil will come up on my library.. i've done the release edit after i'm done.. everything works in this inventor session, but if i turn inventor off and back on again.. they are gone.. only thing i have thought of remaining is that 3 users on our network share the same design styles location so we all our using same stuff, so is the file inventor uses in design styles to save to read only or something, but i read that appearances aren't saved in design styles.. How to do this and the colors stay and populate through all the existing stuff.. I have got the colors to lock into my template ipt in the doc appearances.. and i've done the save to custom library thing.. works until i restart inventor..

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cannot Change Material For The Some Parts In The Assembly BOM

Nov 9, 2013

I wish I can open my general assembly BOM and set the proper Materials to my all my parts after migration from 2012 release.

But I cannot change Material for the some custom part in the assembly BOM in the Parts Only tab. Parts refusing to change a Material have special symbol and I guess it means “promoted assembly” – no info regarding these symbols.

I can change any Material in Structured and Model Data tabs but it is extremely inconvenient for the big assembly.

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The questions is: Why those promoted assemblies have inaccessible Material in the Parts Only tab?

I have similar subassemblies built in similar way as you can see fro video, but one is treated as promoted assembly and other as promoted part, the question is what possible difference between those is?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Assigning Material To Faces At Assembly Level

May 19, 2011

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.

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Apr 11, 2011

I am wondering if there is a way to use a part of one piece located in an assembly to cutout a portion of another piece located in an assembly when both pieces occupy the same space? 

The situation I'm in is that I've got an L bracket (piece 1) resting on top of a piece representing a concrete block (piece 2).  The L bracket has metal studs attached that protrude into the concrete. Idealy I'd like the mass of concrete located in the same space as the studs removed so that when I generate cross sections everything adds up.

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Oct 5, 2011

How do I change the a part material render style within an assembly?

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Nov 22, 2013

How do we change sheet metal parts material, thickness Bend Radii from an assembly in groups.

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May 23, 2012

Why Inventor rename some colors/material when migrating style library from 2012 to 2013? It's very annoying (and stupid in my opinion).

And Inventor said me "Some color/materail was renamed". Yeah good information but can you said me which color was renamed?!?

Does the developpers think about Vault when changing those color? What is the impact on the file (edited out of turn by example...).

Our customers have many colors who become differents when migrating to 2013 and it's not acceptable.

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Apr 17, 2012

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Oct 2, 2012

I have an assembly that was created on 64 bit version of Inventor 2013, the total file size of everything is around 150MB. Even if I use 'Pack and Go' to move the file to another computer running the 32 bit version I get an error when I try to open it which says something like:

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I've performed various dynamic simulations as well as animations within the assembly so I'm thinking that perhaps its trying to allocate that huge amount of memory for a saved state of one of those.

What FBAtributeSegment might be and whether there is any special way to save an assembly to avoid this problem? The name FBAttributeSegment doesn't correspond to any part or assembly names.

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Aug 27, 2012

I knew how to do this in inventor 2011 but now that i installed inventor 2013 I forgot. How to create a new material and save it for future use in inventor 2013?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2013 Custom Material Library

May 4, 2012

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May 1, 2013

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Dec 5, 2012

I have a question pertaining to Inventor Drawings:  Occasionally in an .IDW I make a change in the assembly and I notice that most parts do not update to the new size.  More importantly, if I make a change to the color or appearance of a part  it doesn't reflect in the .IDW.  Is there a way that I can make this happen? 

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Sep 27, 2012

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Nov 4, 2013

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Apr 18, 2013

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Nov 23, 2012

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Nov 20, 2012

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Nov 15, 2013

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Nov 20, 2012

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Aug 7, 2013

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