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How to have new material appear in Materials Library

Vagulus — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 06:27:53 GMT

I have created a new specification for the 3D printing material acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) and have assigned it to a part using iProperties. All okay so far.

I create a new part and want to assign ASA to it but ASA does not appear in the active Materials Library.

How do I migrate the material I have specified to the library?

Re: How to have new material appear in Materials Library

SBix26 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:55:43 GMT

No migration needed. You simply need to save it to a material & appearance library. Materials and appearances work very much like styles: you define them in a document, then save from the document to a library, where they are available to other documents.

Procedure: open the Materials Browser (where you created the material in the first place); right click on the new material and click Add to > followed by your chosen M&A library.

Don't forget-- Inventor has a lot of commands, procedures, and tools that are accessed by right clicking on something (context menus). Don't be afraid to explore them!

Merry Christmas!

Sam B
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Re: How to have new material appear in Materials Library

Vagulus — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:10:36 GMT

Merry Christmas Sam

ASA appears in the IPT iProperties

but it does not appear in the active Materials Library

My conundrum is how to have both 🤔

Re: How to have new material appear in Materials Library

SBix26 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:29:33 GMT

Scroll the upper section of your material browser, which is the list of materials in your part file (LK-01-001.ipt). When you find ASA in that list, right click on it and select Add to > PihanaDesignMaterials.

Sam B
Inventor Pro 2020.2 | Windows 7 SP1
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Re: How to have new material appear in Materials Library

Vagulus — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:38:18 GMT

That's got it.

Thanks.

Re: How to have new material appear in Materials Library

baliasM74U3 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 05:07:16 GMT

@SBix26 I follwed this same step. And defined 4 materials. What should I do to give different apperarences for each of these materials ?