When I imported my materials, some of them came in as a "Misc" category. Can someone tell me how to edit the category for each material? I would like to get these into the Metal/Steel category.
This new materials/apperance editor is going to take some getting use to. Its pretty confusing for me right now.
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In Inventor 2012 (and previous) materials.xml must have a carriage return ( 
 ) between the internal style name and the closing quotes of the internal style name. If that is missing some strange events happen (i.e.. failure in refreshing standard components).
Our 2012 materials.xml was working perfectly (if you take a look at page 6 of this post, where discussing "illegal characters", you'll see a chunk of our 2012 materials.xml 
), so that's not the case...
...but I agree with you: the power you can have editing manually xml styles cannot be achieved with autodesk tools. You just need to know quite well the styles hierarchy, and you also need to know how to test it. That's why I liked the xml more than the adsklib...
again something not working: has anybody managed to make a "transparent appearance"?
All the "glass" materials from inventor libraries, with a wonderful transparent vase icon, are nice only in the icon: when you apply the color the get not clear any more.
Then I tried to open an old component that WAS transparent.
This one has an appearance override, and I imagine that I could use that override to create my other glassy styles...
of course not possible: in appearance editor no traces for the glassy override...
Anyone managed to make a glassy (transparent) material in inventor 2013??
It's insane... this is really not acceptable
Hi Massimo,
Sam is correct - if you want to change the material definition for CC parts which have already been instantiated, then they need to reside in a location which is not defined as a read only library in your project.
You can use a different project where the folder in which the CC parts is considered just a normal folder. Or you can use the same project but move the files to a writable folder for the update. To actually do the update, you can either:
1. Create an assembly which uses all the CC parts, then use the Manage, Update in the assembly & check the "Update Styles in all Child Documents", & compare against the appropriate Material library.
2. Alternatively you can use Task Scheduler, Update Design for the folder of CC files. Ensure that the material library you want to update from is defined as the active library in the project file being used.
The inability to directly update the material for the CC parts using the standard mechanism is logged as a defect.
Regarding the question about transparency, some of the appearances only display properly when using the realistic view mode - that may be the issue you were seeing.
To the initial problem of what happened to your migration & definition of the materials in your custom CC library, etc we still need to see how you had all this configured in 2012 so that we can see what went wrong. That most likely won't help you now, but it could help others who may encounter the same problem. Did you send in any data files to Support, etc ? If not you know my email....
Thanks,
Chris
