How to remove appearances

[castleworksmotorsports]

I've applied an appearance to an assembly and would like to change it, but when I try to drag another appearance to the body I get a warning that I can't do this.

Can you tell me how to remove an appearance from a body?

Thanks

Kevin

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing your problem with the community.

In appearance tab materials which are used is seen in the block and for removing right click on the materials and you will get the one more tab after right click and there is option for unassigned and delete the materials.

Hope the above information helps you!

Bhavesh Raghwani

[castleworksmotorsports]

I am not seeing the current materials used. In this case I am wanting to use the black powder coat that I dragged up into the window "In this Design". Previously I had a polished metal finish, which is what the model is displaying.

The warning I am getting is displayed in the lower left of the image attached.

Thanks

Kevin

[Brady_Fulton]

I think you have two choices:

1. Break the link to the referenced file (right-click in the browser tree) or
2. Change the appearance in the original file

Hope one of these works for you.

[castleworksmotorsports]

I've tried to change the appearance in the original file but keep getting the same warning.

I tried breaking the link but again, it keeps showing up as the original appearance I applied to it.

Not sure what I am doing wrong.

When I created this assembly, I started a new file and then dragged the three individual components from my data panel on the left, moved the parts to make the complete assembly, then went into the render section and applied a metal finish. Now I want to change the finish to a painted one, and thats where I am stuck.

Hope that helps.

Kevin

[Brady_Fulton]

Tried to break the link? Did it break the link or was there an error at that point as well?

Shouldn't make a difference, but have you tried changing the appearance in the render workspace?

After you change the appearance in the original file and go back to the assembly, do you see any yellow warnings like in this image:

[castleworksmotorsports]

So I am not quite sure how I got there....here is where I finally was able to change it....right clicked on the appearance and selected "unassign and delete"

Prior to this I right clicked on the components on the left of the screen and selected break link.

Thanks for the help

Kevin

[Anonymous]

I had the same error and tried to fix it like mentioned above.

For some reason it didn't want to remove the appearance. I think that was because it was tied to the material somehow. (Steel-satin).

I fixed it by assigning another appearance to the component (and the body, as I wasn't sure where the fault lied) and then 'unassigned and deleted' the new appearance. This worked.

I think it would be nice to be able to remove any appearance from a single body or component. Just to be sure it hasn't got any appearance linked to it. (maybe a new tool in the RMB-menu or by dragging an 'no appearance' appearance)

[g-andresen]

hi,

drag the primary material over the added appearence removes this.

günther

[Anonymous]

I assumed so, but somehow it didn't work. (In the parent assembly, the linked component didn't show the parents appearance)

I had to give it another appearance and then 'unassign and delete' that one.