How to have new material appear in Materials Library

[Vagulus]

I have created a new specification for the 3D printing material acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) and have assigned it to a part using iProperties.  All okay so far.

I create a new part and want to assign ASA to it but ASA does not appear in the active Materials Library.

How do I migrate the material I have specified to the library?

[SBix26]

No migration needed.  You simply need to save it to a material & appearance library.  Materials and appearances work very much like styles: you define them in a document, then save from the document to a library, where they are available to other documents.

Procedure: open the Materials Browser (where you created the material in the first place); right click on the new material and click Add to > followed by your chosen M&A library.

Don't forget-- Inventor has a lot of commands, procedures, and tools that are accessed by right clicking on something (context menus).  Don't be afraid to explore them!

Merry Christmas!

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Sam B
Inventor Pro 2020.2 | Windows 7 SP1
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[Vagulus]

Merry Christmas Sam

ASA appears in the IPT iProperties

but it does not appear in the active Materials Library

My conundrum is how to have both 🤔

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

Scroll the upper section of your material browser, which is the list of materials in your part file (LK-01-001.ipt).  When you find ASA in that list, right click on it and select Add to > PihanaDesignMaterials.

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Sam B
Inventor Pro 2020.2 | Windows 7 SP1
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[Vagulus]

That's got it.

Thanks.

[baliasM74U3]

@SBix26  I follwed this same step. And defined 4 materials. What should I do to give different apperarences for each of these materials ?