When I implemented Inventor Pro 2013 I added all our custom materials to the Inventor Material Library. This library is not local but on a shared network drive that everyone in my company can access.. You can clearly see that it is not locked and is write enabled. I dragged the local material to the library and I shows up in the library. When I close and exit Inventor and re-open, it is no longer available.
You can clearly see by my screen capture that the new material was added to the library. Why isn't is updating the library?
I have managed our Inventor styles and libraries for Inventor since 2003 (R5) and I never had as much problems getting my mind to wrap around this new appearances change that Autodesk has made. I have wasted 4 hours this morning trying to add a simple custom material to my library and I cannot.
Please help!
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this file might help.
You are not alone-- migrating and updating a custom M & A library has taken me six months, with constant issues as you describe. It seems to be working now, but I don't expect that to last...
Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional
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Inventor Professional 2013 SP1.1 Update 1
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Thanks for your help gentlemen. Apparently you need to have everyone out of Inventor so nobody is accessing the material libraries in order for the change to take place. I waited until everyone went home and added the local material to the Inventor Material Library and now it appear for everyone.
Glad that works for you but it really isn't an acceptable solution.
I can't even COPY the existing library elsewhere to add things to it as simply copying an open library gives an error of it not containing any materials when you try to open it.
I shouldn't have to stay 2 hours+ late or get in 2 hours+ early to add a material to the library. Period.
You would think that updating to a new version of Inventor would be easier. I tried to import my 2012 materials to 2014. 2 days later I said screw it and hand loaded all of the material information only took about 20 minutes. With MDT, when you clicked the import button on materials at least it took you to the right folder in the new version so that you could see the directroy structure and find the file in the old version. Inventor (at least 2014) goes to the "C" drive with no other clues. Also why doesn't the standard library have commonly used materials like tool steels included? I can't remember the last time I made a part out of gold.
John,
There were some issues around this in the initial releases of 2013, but to my knowledge all of them have since been resolved. Are you using the latest Service Packs & updates ?
I also note from your image that you are writing custom info to the Inventor material library. I would suggest that a better option is to create your own company specific material/apperance library, add that to your project definition & then add your materials/appearances there. If you add to the default Inventor library, then on your next upgrade, your changes could be lost, if you use the as-installed Inventor library, or if you keep your library then the changes we make would be lost.
Thanks,
Chris
Let's see what happens with the default library open and different options selected:
Create New Library = blank library with no information
Migrate Inventor Styles = browse down thru 10 layers to get to "InventorMaterialsLibrary.adskilb", select it and everything except the create new materials library radio button is greyed out.
Using Windows explorer, copy "InventorMaterialsLibrary.adskilb" from materials folder to another folder, rename the file "ABCMaterialsLibrary.adskilb" and copy it back to materials folder. Restart Inventor, open materials browser, select open existing library = "failed to open material library"
It is amazing how many things don't work in Inventor 2014.
Hi Barry,
The Migrate command os for migrating legacy (pre-2013) material/color stlyes libraries from the xml format to the new .adsklib format.
You cannot simply copy an adsklib file on disk & then try to load it at the same time as the library that it was copied from. If you want to copy the Inventor.adsklib file, then you must first remove the default Inventor library from your project definition.
What exactly are you trying to do ?
Thanks
Chris
Hi Barry,
At this stage I would suggest that you open 2 specifc support calls instead of relying on this ad-hoc forum. Product Support should easily be able to guide you through the necessary steps for a successful 2012-2014 upgrade in a screenshare.
Yes, migrating from MDT to Inventor requires some specific steps to be performed, but it does work very well, so there should be no need to recreate those 11,000 files; Product Support have info about all of that in a very usable form.
Thanks,
Chris