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RAL-color library

TobiasZetterberg2067 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:48:54 GMT

Hello!
I work a lot with industrial equipment and components which are often delivered painted in RAL-colors (4 digits).
Therefore I created a complete RAL-color library with a painted look (gloss and reflectivity).
I believe in sharing useful things to others so here is the RAL-color library.

I had to split the file into a mutlivolume zip due to the file size-limitations for this forum (<5 Mb).

The first part is in this post and the second is in the post below.
You can see how to attach it in:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-98E276B9-ACFC-40CF-8FFB-D9D081D4C207
Below is a overview of the library.
I hope someone find this useful!
/Tobias, Toze AB

Re: RAL-color library

TobiasZetterberg2067 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:50:37 GMT

And here is the second part of the multivolume zip-file...

Re: RAL-color library

PaulMunford — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:22:54 GMT

Great Job Tobias - Major Kudos 😄

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:15:07 GMT

Tobias... you are an absolute legend!

Re: RAL-color library

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:25:34 GMT

Looks great! Thank you!

I got an error message when opening the 2nd ZIP file _001 with WinZIP.

It says "Connot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive".

Do more people receive this message (corrupt file?), or can you please create and upload the ZIP file again.

Thanks in advance.

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:49:17 GMT

Yes I'm also seeing the error when I try to do anything with the first file. I've tried to open it with 7Zip as well, but no joy.

Re: RAL-color library

TobiasZetterberg2067 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:38:29 GMT

Hello!

You should not need to be opening the second file, just download the two zip-files and put them in the same folder.

Then you open the first file (RAL-colors.zip) to see the library (the second file, RAL_colors_001.zip, is automatically opened in the background).

I used Zip-genius 6 to create the archive but you should be able to use any zip-program to unpack it.

/BR T

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:38:45 GMT

I've shared this with our readers Tobias, thanks again. http://designandmotion.net/autodesk/mfg-pages/inventor/autodesk-inventor-ral-colour-libraries/

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:42:54 GMT

@TobiasZetterberg2067 wrote:

Hello!

You should not need to be opening the second file, just download the two zip-files and put them in the same folder.

Then you open the first file (RAL-colors.zip) to see the library (the second file, RAL_colors_001.zip, is automatically opened in the background).

I used Zip-genius 6 to create the archive but you should be able to use any zip-program to unpack it.

/BR T

Yup. It still doesn't work. Windows reports a compression error. You could put the original adsklib file into your Autodesk 360 Hub, then share a link from there?

Re: RAL-color library

AlexFielder — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:48:46 GMT

Hi Tobias,

Great work by the way, but I couldn't seem to open the .zip files you shared.

Perhaps you can stick them on Google Drive or Dropbox instead?

Thanks,

Alex.

Re: RAL-color library

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:49:55 GMT

As said by Scott,

when extracting the first part, an error message in appears that there is something wrong with the 2nd part of the file.

So both files could not be merged.

Seems like lot of people appreciate your job 🙂

Re: RAL-color library

TobiasZetterberg2067 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:52:09 GMT

Hi!

Here is a try with autodesk 360:
http://a360.co/1z6WRxm

Let me know if there is any problems.

/BR T

Re: RAL-color library

finnurp — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:46:53 GMT

Good work - thanks

by the way. I was unable to unzip with Winzip and 7 zip. Dowmloaded Zipgenius and then it worked.

Re: RAL-color library

JorisSteurs1246 — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:45:46 GMT

Having the same problem, none of the zip files are opening correctly. Maybe a dropbox link is the better solution for sharing this?

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:03:50 GMT

@JorisSteurs1246 wrote:

Having the same problem, none of the zip files are opening correctly. Maybe a dropbox link is the better solution for sharing this?

Ok I've hosted the zip file on the D&M server, the link is towards the end of the post.

Re: RAL-color library

scottmoyse — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:05:25 GMT

@TobiasZetterberg2067 wrote:

Hi!

Here is a try with autodesk 360:
http://a360.co/1z6WRxm

Let me know if there is any problems.

/BR T

Yes that works perfectly. Sorry I didn't see this before adding it to the D&M post.

Re: RAL-color library

JimmyDoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:31:40 GMT

Ok guys,

I have downloaded the files, unpacked them, added them to my materials library folder on C:\. Checked out my project (Vault) added the ral-colors adsklib file to it, after adding the files to my materials library in vault. When I open the library in a part to change the colour to a RAL colour, I get a message that there are 'No materials in this library'.

Now I'm fairly new to Inventor and Vault (3 months, previously Creo and Windchill/intralink for 8 years) but I followed all the steps that I have found for adding a library to Inventor but have had no luck. I have tried this about a dozen times with still no luck. Everything seems correct except for the fact that it says there are no files in the library.

Any help or advice?...please

Re: RAL-color library

JimmyDoe — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:15:51 GMT

Problem solved!

I had the file in my materials library instead of my appearances library. So I moved it over and now have all sorts of wonderful colours to choose from!!!

Kudos to you, Tobias!

Re: RAL-color library

TobiasZetterberg2067 — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:10:51 GMT

Autodesk 360 sharing seems to be time-limited so here is a link to the unzipped library-file (.adsklib) at my google drive instead.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9_OlPHjbi6wUkIzaml2dUp6THc

Let me know if it doesnt work.

/Best regards Tobias

Re: RAL-color library

mp_thompson — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:05:55 GMT

Nice one thanks @TobiasZetterberg2067

Very good of you to go to the effort and then be selfless enough to save others from having to do the same