Default Weldment Material

[Neil_Cross]

How do.

In Weldment.iam template there is a document material called Welded Aluminum-6061 which is seemingly the default selected material when you convert a normal assembly to a weldment.  I've opened Weldment.iam, added a new document material and made that the active material but I can't remove Welded Aluminum-6061 from the doc materials.  I can't find anything in the styles or iProps which defines this material as the default, does anyone know how to stop this material from being default and how to remove it from the Weldment.iam template altogether?

Cheers

[JoAnn_Hogan]

When you convert your assembly to a weld. The convert weld dialog box will appear. In that dialog box you can set the default weld material.

Please see my attachment

kelly.young has embedded your image for clarity.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, however that's not really setting the default material, the default material is 'default' meaning it's preselected by the application.  That's what I'm trying to modify.

What I'm trying to do is remove that material altogether from the application and have it preselect a different material.  I need to know where in the application it's being told to default to that specific material, so that I can change it.  

Just for further clarity, I'm very aware that you can change the material when converting to a weldment, I'm trying to make it so that I don't have to.  

[Neil_Cross]

Sorry, was logged in as the wrong user there!

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Please have a look at this link: http://docs.autodesk.com/INVPRO/2010/ENU/Autodesk%20Inventor%202010%20Help/index.html?url=WS1a919382...

This explains how to create a weld template and adding material. I hope this helps because I seriously cant think of anything else right now

[chad38]

I was  trying to figure out the exact same thing last week. Unfortunately I gave up before figuring anything out. I'll keep an eye here and hope I see a solution. Thanks for posting.

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Did you have a look at the link above?

[blair]

I would try: start a new IAM file, convert it to a Weldment, in the conversion, select the correct filler material and then save the new IAM as the default weldment template.

[blair]

Or as the Weldment Template file with the correct filler material. You could have a couple with different filler materials.

[chad38]

Well I hadn't, but just did, and it didn't really help me, other than to get me trying again. I figured it out. I opened up my weldment template, then in the assembly tree I expanded the Welds, right clicked on the "Beads" folder, went down to iProperties, and it brought up a dialog box a tab I hadn't yet seen "weld bead", though it only set appearance properties, but on the physical tab, you can change away from the default "Aluminum-6061" to what material you prefer. So though that link didn't directly help, it inspired someone to help himself. You should be proud.

[Neil_Cross]

Cheers for that. I looked at the help page but it was more about telling you what you can do, rather than how to do it. Typical state of the help pages right now.
Didn't get a chance to look any further as I'm at work and doing other stuff but I'll checkout that iProp thing tomorrow, sure I checked out all the iprops even in the bead area but I could have missed it. Thanks in advance.

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[punisher]

Neil and all,

I think I have it. In the Weldment, navigate to the Welds Collection.

Ribbon: Weld tab -> Process panel -> Welds

then

Browser: Weld group -> Beads

Pick the iProperties from the Beads context menu

You can change your material there on the Physical tab.

I really hope this helps.

[punisher]

I wrote this up on D&M and linked back here. If I come up with anything more useful I will update both.

Changing the Default Weldment Material on D&M.

The link should go active tonight.

[ACEDeSmedt]

2018, still not possible to change the default weld material when you CONVERT an assembly to a weldment?

Before the whole Material/Appearance Assets thing, you could mark Material styles as a weldment material (That was how we used to do it, only leave one or two possible choices and Inventor will default to that material when converting) but I couldn't find the property in the assets editor ...

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! It is true that Inventor no longer supports the concept of default Weldment material style since 2013. Inventor adopts the company-wide materials and appearance library. As a result, it is technically challenge to add any Inventor specific property to the styles. It is because not all Autodesk product users are doing Weldment design.

On converting a regular assembly to a weldment assembly, you will need to select the weldment material from the drop down list.

Many thanks!

[b_ruijter]

Running 2023, still not possible to change the default weld material when you CONVERT an assembly to a weldment?

It's time to quit the excuses and fix this please.

[0x3FA5]

OMG SO SIMPLE!! AND MAKES PERFECT SENSE ALSO!

Thank you 🙂

[Rishi-Bhardwaj]

many thanks to you sir...