Make Components Materials

[L.Greft]

I've created a multi-body party and used the Make Components function to create an assembly and parts. The sheet metal rules are set correctly, including the thickness and unfold rule. But the materials are set to generic every time I use the Make Components function.

This only occurs when I use a Vault project, with a single user project it works fine. I use a custom material library, which is placed in Vault.

Did someone else run into this issue and found a solution for it?

Thank you

Inventor 2019

[todd_cannon]

Hi LvanderGreft,

That is the normal behavior when making components. You can use the names of the solids to drive the part names. You can select  which Assembly and Part template you want to use. Then when the assembly opens and you save it, you can start applying material to the individual parts. Hope this helps..

Cheers,

Todd

[L.Greft]

@todd_cannon for the past years I've used Inventor it always worked with a single user project and it still works. If I select a sheet metal rule a material is set and when using make components the material in the BOM is still set as the material of the multi-body part.

The only thing is that this doesn't happen if it's a Vault project, so is there a setting for this to make it work? If not then why is there a difference between the Vault and the single user project?

[todd_cannon]

Hi LvanderGreft,

I didn't think about the sheet metal rule and how it could carry over to the derived parts. Do you use the sheet metal part template when making components? As, far as Vault/Standalone...I have always been on Standalone so, I couldn't speak to the difference. Actually, I have never done make components for a sheet metal assembly either, but I do know you can choose the sheet metal template for the parts.

Cheers,

Todd

[HAFA12]

During make component you can check a box "link sheet metal styles".

When enabled it carries over the rules from your skeleton, including the material set there (in the individual rule/style editor).

If you overrule the material in the individual rule by selecting a material in the "Sheet Metal Defaults" menu (other than "By Sheet Metal Rule") this does not export to your components. So it still exports the material that is set in your 3mm thickness rule I believe.

If you don't link the styles you'll manually have to set the right rule that matches the thickness in the component and manually change it if you change thickness in your skeleton part.

[L.Greft]

@todd_cannon I use a custom sheet metal template and I choose this template in the make components menu.

@HAFA12 I have that option enabled and in the skeleton everything is set to "By Sheet Metal Rule". Like you said I would expect that the material from the rule will be exported. This does happen if I'm working in a single user project, but it doesn't happen when I'm working in a Vault project.

[L.Greft]

I haven't changed anything in the settings or the working method, but it works fine now. The materials are now the same as the sheet metal rule.

So I don't know why it's working now and why it didn't work in the past, but I will keep checking it.

[L.Greft]

It went well for the past two months, but now it occurs again. Nothing has changed in the meantime...