Is it possible to change Solid Bodies material of ipt file while in assembly?

[Anonymous]

I have an assembly (and a lot of sub-assemblies) in which we were given the skid/tank/base to us from the customer in a non-inventor file. During conversion it translated to every single piece was a separate ipt file. They also color coded them as shown in Capture1.jpg. Now the job is done and we are doing the As Built drawings. My Project Manager wants me to change all the ipts to SS material. I can do this by opening each ipt and picking the Solid2/Solid Bodies then changing the material in Tools to SS. Then I have to save it and close it out. That words great but I have to do all this for a lot of separate pieces. See Capture2.jpg and Capture3.jpg.

My question: is there a way to pick these items while still in the main assembly (or sub assembly) and change this property without going in and out of every ipt? I have a lot of representations made for all the drawings created so I can't just change the material in the assembly. I'd still have to go and change them in each representation too. Either way it's a lot of work.

I'm working in Autodesk Inventor Professional 2017.

Any suggestions would be great!

Thank you!

Veronica

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I believe you can do that within BOM table. Go to BOM table -> right-click on a header -> Runtime column configuration -> add Material to the table. You can change the material for each part there.

Many thanks!