Select All - Faces

[wseaston]

Hi There,

I am working with a model which has all the faces colour properties set to "default". If I change the material of the model, the faces obviously don't change. Is there a way I can select all the faces at once to change the face colour property to "as body".

Currently I can only select one face at a time.

Thanks

[alewer]

I don't know of any way without a macro.  Try the following:

Public Sub AllFacesAsPartRenderStyle()
    Dim oPartDocument As Inventor.PartDocument
    Set oPartDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    
    Dim oCompDef As Inventor.ComponentDefinition
    Set oCompDef = oPartDocument.ComponentDefinition
    
    Dim oSBodies As Inventor.SurfaceBodies
    Set oSBodies = oCompDef.SurfaceBodies
    
    Dim oSBody As Inventor.SurfaceBody
    Dim oFace As Inventor.Face
    
    For Each oSBody In oSBodies
        For Each oFace In oSBody.Faces
            oFace.SetRenderStyle kBodyRenderStyle
        Next oFace
        
        oSBody.SetRenderStyle kPartRenderStyle
    Next oSBody
End Sub

[Loren_J]

Expand the Solid Bodies folder, right-click on the solid and select Properties. You can set the color style for the whole body.

[alewer]

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@Loren_J wrote:

Expand the Solid Bodies folder, right-click on the solid and select Properties. You can set the color style for the whole body.

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Your post jogged my memory, but you missed one detail:  you also have to select "Strip Overrides" when editing the body properties.  But your solution is less troublesome than my macro for a one-off fix.  I use the macro quite a lot because I have to deal with a lot of imported parts that always seem to have this problem, and I can run the macro with a single click (I've added my own button).

[wseaston]

"Expand the Solid Bodies folder, right-click on the solid and select Properties. You can set the color style for the whole body."

Thanks, but I have already tried this an it did not work as expected. I have found that if I select individual faces RMB, select properties, the faces colour shows up as default instead of as part or as body. If I set the face properties to one of these, the colour is then as per the material colour style.

I have further found that if I follow the procedure as you suggested after I have set some of the faces to "as part" they revert back to default....

Cheers

[trevorauman]

Right Click to select the body. When the screen pops up asking the color check the box "Clear All Overrides"

[JDMather]

Of course you can change the entire body at once.

Attach your file here if you can't figure it out.

[bwang-tecoustics]

Try 'Tool' -> 'Material and Appearance' -> 'Clear'.

It can slect all the overwritten faces.

[Jmcquaid]

You are my hero!