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solid bodies with different materials in a part

sivashankarpsg_26 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:37:06 GMT

i have created a part with two solid bodies.

I want to give different physical material property to it

But i can only change the appearance

is there any ways to create with different material properties.

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

Mark.Lancaster — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:47:04 GMT

@sivashankarpsg_26

No only appearance is allowed.

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

sivashankarpsg_26 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:54:06 GMT

is there any other ways for this?

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

JDMather — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:57:44 GMT

Manage>Make Components...

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

sivashankarpsg_26 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:09:17 GMT

yes it may be useful

but i have created a part with two solid bodies and derived it and that was further derived for a need

if i use your solution I have to recreate everything right!

please advice me in this .

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

JDMather — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:15:26 GMT

Attach your files here.

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

sivashankarpsg_26 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:24:20 GMT

sorry I could not do that

terms and conditions of our company😐

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

johnsonshiue — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:13:58 GMT

Hi! Inventor ipt file can have multiple solid bodies but only one material style. Like JD mentioned here, you can use Make Components command to push each solid body to a part. The assign a different material style. Yes, you will have a source part, two derived parts and an assembly.

Many thanks!

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

panzilte — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:24:55 GMT

Switch to Solidworks. Solidwork will allow the user to have multi body part and assign different materials to each body

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

soerenstaerk — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:15:00 GMT

Yeah, convince your company to do that. Wow

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

andycathal8088 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:23:37 GMT

Yes you can! - Make an extrusion (say solid 1). Then make another extrusion only this time, in the extrusion box, hit - Output, and change Boolean to the blue box with the green plus (this should be solid2). This means you have 2 separate solids in one part. Next - on the left, find the extrusion you just created. Right click it - hit Properties - hit Feature Appearance - then pick a new appearance. You now have 2 solids with 2 different appearances in one part.

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

panzilte — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:45:45 GMT

You did not understand the original post. The user has created a part with multiple solid bodies and this user would like to assign different materials to each solid body. For example a part is modelled with 4 solid bodies. The creator would like to assign the following materials to each body.

Solid1 - Aluminum

Solid2- Brass

Solid3- Zinc

Solid4- Stainless Steel

With Autodesk Inventor versions R2021 or older one cannot do this in Inventor. One can only change the appearance as you described.

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

johnsonshiue — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:11:42 GMT

Hi! Indeed, at the moment, Inventor does not allow a part to have multiple materials (one material property per body). Fusion 360 does have the ability to do that. If that is something you absolutely need, please try it on Fusion.

Many thanks!

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

ethan_howardMMXXV — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:58:47 GMT

If I open my ipt with multiple solid bodies in Fusion 360 to change the materials. Can I then open the Fusion changes in Inventor? Will Inventor have this ability in the future so we don't have to jump back and forth?

Off the beaten path - Is there a migration path from Inventor to Fusion 360? We have over a Terabyte of Inventor data in Autodesk Vault. Is this recommended?

Thank you!

Re: solid bodies with different materials in a part

johnsonshiue — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 01:52:51 GMT

Hi Ethan,

At the moment, only the model geometry and appearance can be passed between Inventor and Fusion. We are aware of the request to support material style per body but we don't have a good solution. Nor am I aware it is on the near-term radar.

If you want to migrate Inventor files to Fusion, as I mentioned earlier, at the moment only the geometry and appearance in the ipt and iam files will move over. I suggest you try a few files and see if this is a viable solution.

Many thanks!