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Anonymous
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Changing all components material

Hi, 

 

I have a feeling this one might be outside of my knowledge base but ill try it out anyway. 

 

I am basically just trying to control the material properties most of my parts all at once. Our products are about 99% stainless steel so ill focus on just that. The issue is we either use type 304L S.S. or 316L S.S. depending on the job. I am trying to create a nice little button to choose either one that will send that information down to all of my parts.

 

I am hoping that is a nice easy way to go and find all exisiting material properties and IF they are/arent one way, change them to another. I have a feeling however that I am going to have to create a line in a rule for each and every component which will definitely take some time but if thats what I have to do, so be it. 

 

So far I have created my own material library so it consists of ONLY the very few materials we use. Basically the only thing I have figured out how to do so far is create a multi-value list of all of the materials in my library. I can't export the text, and can only reference it at top level assembly. I have no idea how to send that information down to all components. 

 

Any help is immensely appreciated!

 

Thanks

Sandro