Inventor Material info : Description, Keywords, Subclass, Source URL

[fbk]

In the Material Editor > Material > Physical Properties > Information are fields where you can place information like : Description, Keywords, Subclass, Source URL. *** Great ***

But how can I show it to the draftsmen, like a TAG, or in a column of something (Now it's too deep). I want that a draftmen can filter on this information when he chooses a material. Is that possible ?

Thanks in advance, Fred Bellekom

[Neil_Cross]

Nope this information is essentially useless, it isn't visible or accessible anywhere outside of the material editor.  I think the material & appearence dialogs have been ported over from other Autodesk products, so some of the fields are essentially dead and void.  You can put the materials into categories and then filter materials that way, but that can only be done in the material editor... not in the drop down list you traditionally select materials from.

As a side note, this post maybe should have been logged on the community forums as it's kind of a question.  I guess as it turns out what you're asking can't be done, it could be an Idea if you care enough about it to be logged as one!

[fbk]

Thanks Neal for your comment.

Maybe it can be done in feature versions of Inventor.
Some kind of materials are specific for one use, like bearings, shaft, content center, plates etc.
And it would be nice if you can group it, and put some kind of description of the material characteristics, and even the link to the supplier in this file.

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