Changing a bearing's material

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon everyone I am trying to do a stress analysis on an assembly that I have built in Inventor 2017, but I can't change the material of my bearings to the correct one. Whenever I try, Inventor blocks me telling me that the family is in read-only mode or something like that. Can please someone help me out? Thanks in advance

[Cadmanto]

Are you using Vault or did the files come from a Vaulted environment?

If you RC on the files in Windows Explorer, select "Properties" then uncheck the "Read Only" box.  This will allow read write privileges to the files.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
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Inventor Pro 2020

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I was able to solve the problem by downloading a 3D model from SKF's website and changing the bearing material in that file. I replaced the Inventor-made bearings with the SKF's and everything went fine. The bearing that was impossible to customize was not read-only in Windows Explorer, but you still couldn't do anything about it because it belonged to a read-only family of components in Inventor, so in the future I will always try to download the appropriate 3D models from a manufacturer's website. Thanks for helping me anyway, have a nice day!