Where is Inventor 2013 Material Library?

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Just loaded Product Suite Ult 2013 & I cannot get any materials to show up in my Inventor Materials Library.

I set my Options/File/Design Data path to a local drive & copied the original 2013 Design Data contents to it (see screen shot)

I read the Inventor 2013 Materials & Appearances but still scratchin my head. I would appreciate if someone could walk me through how to get the default 2013 Materials Library linked up.

Gary

[Anonymous]

Material Browser

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It's really just broken into two sections:

Materials: this is the physical properties, density, yield, tensile, thermal... Along with a default appearance.

Appearance: is just the color/appearance of an item. It will not change the physical properties on an item.

example: Steel: when you create a part using the Steel materials it will be grey and have all the physical properties of steel. You can then change the appearance to Red or Yellow.... Without changing the physical properties.

If you use FEA, it will read the Material properties for it's calculation's that Autodesk did was move the Material from the iProperties tab to the main menu.

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You will need to import any old Materials from your previous version as the Style Library is not imported.

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You will need to import any old Materials from your previous version as the Style Library is not imported.