That's due to what I said before. When we made up these materials, we
created the ones we used the most. Lexan was one that I used a lot (machine
guarding) at that time..
--
Sean Dotson, PE
http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is for the weak..
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"mpower" wrote in message
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> Yea, I had R1 briefly. Most of my designs are steel. I was surprised to
> see Lexan, but no iron.
>
> Thanks for the help. I'll post my iron file.
>
> "Sean Dotson" wrote in message
> news:04090922B84854911EC72A9369E20932@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Did you ever see R1? It had only a handful of materials and colors.
> > Charles, Ron, Dan, Gerry and I made up a bunch of materials and colors
and
> > what you see in Inventor now is the product of what we made and posted.
> If
> > you make new materials or colors post them and maybe they'll make it
into
> > the next release.
> >
> > Kent has some VBA routines to copy materials into multiple files
> > http://www.mymcad.com/KWiK/Mcad.htm
> >
> > If you just want to copy into a few files go to format/organize and
select
> a
> > source file to copy from. Copy them into your template file to have
them
> > available to all new parts.
> >
> > --
> > Sean Dotson, PE
> > http://www.sdotson.com
> > ...sleep is for the weak..
> > -----------------------------------------
> > "mpower" wrote in message
> > news:2BE08BCD2DA2C97D5F377D01AAC4EE57@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > > I can't believe that AutoDesk has not made iron one of the standard
> > > materials! Since it's not, I'll have to make it a new material again.
> > > There's some work to be done here. It would be nice when your working
> in
> > > english units to be able to enter english units into IV. Is there a
way
> > to
> > > copy a material from one file to another?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>