https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471215#M201623 <P>First think I noticed is that iProperties indicates that you&nbsp; have not installed the latest updates for 2018.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>What happens if you change the Lighting Style to Gray Room rather than Two Lights?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Lighting Style.png" style="width: 720px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/581921iC1829A45E6660E9F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Lighting Style.png" alt="Lighting Style.png" /></span></P> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:40:26 GMT JDMather 2018-12-16T21:40:26Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471174#M201620 <P>I have two parts that I assigned a material and changed the color appearance to match the paint, however when placed into an assembly, the colors becomes shades of grey/metallic look. This is the first time I have run into this problem and when trying to create another assembly, the parts still remain grey. How can this be fixed? I am running Inventor 2018</P> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:59:29 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471174#M201620 cmm3 2018-12-16T20:59:29Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471181#M201621 <P>Can you Attach a file here that exhibits this behavior?</P> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:06:57 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471181#M201621 JDMather 2018-12-16T21:06:57Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471194#M201622 <P>Here is a simple assembly I just made, All I did was create the shape, set the material, and used Appearance Override on a few faces</P> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:25:31 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471194#M201622 cmm3 2018-12-16T21:25:31Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471215#M201623 <P>First think I noticed is that iProperties indicates that you&nbsp; have not installed the latest updates for 2018.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>What happens if you change the Lighting Style to Gray Room rather than Two Lights?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Lighting Style.png" style="width: 720px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/581921iC1829A45E6660E9F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Lighting Style.png" alt="Lighting Style.png" /></span></P> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:40:26 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/trouble-with-overridden-part-colors-not-showing-in-assembly/m-p/8471215#M201623 JDMather 2018-12-16T21:40:26Z