Hello,
Maybe it is a dum question. How can I create a new material in Inv2013.
I got lost with all the new menus in there. Maybe there is a tutorial or video with this issue explained
Thanks,
Dan
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But how do you save the new style because when you make it it is only saved for that session
Materials are no longer under styles, they're in material library under design data.
My workflow:
I have one .ipt part in design data next to material library just for materials, so i have also every single material in my working ipt file.
Next, you have to clear out read only option in windows for your custom material library.
Then open ipt part.
Create new material, and add it to your library.
Close everything, check your library as read only in windows.
For more info, please use google or this forum, there's tons of posts about that.
e.g.
http://www.trainingtutorial.com/TAT38_Custom_Autodesk_Inventor_2013_Material_Library.htm
Greg
Have to say you have quite complicated arrangement with all that project files on local sites, but looks like it's the only way for local workspaces.
Anyway, can't argue about bugs and poorly written code in new materials & stuff.
Is there a lock next to your custom library name maybe? And if someone is using the library, you cant' edit it. But you can unlock it (in windows - read only off), then quickly open it and it will get "locked" just for you for editing.
And always, when you're done, lock the adsklib file back to read only, so no one can edit the library (will get lock next to the name, like inventor library).
More importantly, do you have sp1 & 2 installed? With sp1 (or it was sp1.1?), all the big bugs flew away ...
Oh, maybe you should try one more thing - i hope you migrated material library with sp1.1 installed, otherwise it could be corrupted. It happened to me.
At first it looked like a big mess to me, but now i wouldn't go back to old styles system. This one is simply better, and i hope autodesk will continue to work on it.
Well, hope you'll find some usefull information! But for time being, people can create new materials locally.
Greg
Hope that will fix your problem! It did work for me.
If not, i think there's some other options, but are hidden somewhere deep in this forum
Good luck!
Greg
Cheers! The problem seemed to be the (unbeknownst to me) corrupt custom .adsklib file that was migrated while at Inventor 2013 sp0. I reran the migration now that I'm updated to sp2, gave the resulting custom .adsklib a new name and changed my (and the other users' local .ipj files to point to the new library in our network location. The custom library can now be edited in place and the changes will be available to the other users after they close and restart Inventor. Another useful hint is to use the "Update" command in the Manage/Styles and Standards to push the Library changes that occur during migration to the template. GREAT ADVICE Streharg!
Just advice - you don't need to push materials to template file, so template file is smaller in size. Materials are accessible all the time from the library. And if you update materials, all the local copies of material won't update, or you'll have to update it manually.
There is one exception - the default material, or predefined material (e.g. we use S235 steel 90% of time, so it's predefined in our template).
Well, I'm happy it worked!
Good luck!
Greg
So I have an issue kind of along the same lines I think. I created a new library for my materials and appearances, set it up in projects to look at the materials file, and all goes well. I can open new part, change the material, save the part, close it, close IV, reopen saved part and all the materials I have saved are exactly how I left them.
The issue I have is sometimes IV will crash and when I reopen IV the materials that I have saved to my new custom library is completely empty. I have done this several times and ended with the same result. I have even created my library, copied it into another location, and named it something different to see if I can have IV look at a different file after it crashes. Even the renamed library file appears to be blank. Why does it do this to me?
Windows7 x32 IV 2014
hello,
i am using autodesk inventor 2012 student version. can you help me that, how to add new material in this version.
genric option is not there inventor version, kindly help
My apologies, but I am not the right guy to ask! I went from 2010 to 2013 on a network based deployment and have no access to 2012 Student Version. Best of luck to you.