Material Library Location

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am trying to organise a single location for all the design data, material libraries and textures. Is this possible? 

I am trying a couple of things here and there but I am currently stuck with the material libraries not showing up.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Is this location on local drive or shared drive? To get best performance, Appearance and Material Libraries are best located in local drive.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

We have it currently on the local drive. But we are trying to put it up on the network drive so every body gets the same texture and materials.

[Anonymous]

Afterwards I was thinking, maybe put it in vault as well.

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! I think you can vault it and lock it so only admin can modify the libraries and design data. Then just make sure everybody gets the same version.

Many thanks!

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi Nabin,

This is possible, you can setting material & appearance library in project setting below

and you can config the design data, texture location, etc. in application option below.

Hope it helps!

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to organise a single location for all the design data, material libraries and textures. Is this possible? 

I am trying a couple of things here and there but I am currently stuck with the material libraries not showing up.

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@Anonymous

You should learn how project files in Inventor work..

Thats where you can specify the locations of all the design data,etc... 

Then you can have all users working off that one project file for standardization..

Start your learning here..

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016...

You probably want to get solid training in how to setup/work with Vault too.. 

Your local reseller should offer training classes that can be very helpful for initial Vault and Inventor implementation.. 

[Frederick_Law]

All of what you looking for are under the folder: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\Design Data

Since you have Vault, just use Vault to manager all the files.  Don't put them on a network drive.  Vault will keep everything in sync while network file could be out of date.

[Anonymous]

FYI, before I put everything in vault, I wanted to try it on a network drive as a test. 

I have organised most of my links via projects but I am not sure if the project file overrides the file location from inventor options. Both of them have same  folder locations currently but what happens when one is different to the other.

See the snap shots I have attached.

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

The active project file overrides the Application Options settings.

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2018.2.3
Windows 7 SP1

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Sam,

A little bit correction here. The active project setting does not override Application Options. The Application Options allow you to configure the default location for \Design Data\ and other folders. The active project always dictates where these folders are. By default, a project simply uses default Application Options.

Many thanks!

[JBerns]

@johnsonshiue,

Are you sure that Application Options overrides the settings in the Active Project?

As an Inventor user for nearly 20 years, it has been my experience that the active project can specify folder paths to:

• appearance libraries
• material libraries
• templates
• design data
• hole presets (2019)
• content center files

This allows you to switch projects without having to use Application Options to reset paths. Why would these path options be available in the project if they were ignored and the Application Options used instead?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Jerry

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Jerry,

I guess my posting was misunderstood. I did not say Application Options overrides Active Project settings. Application Options only dictates "Default" settings. If you create a new project with default settings (or any existing project with default settings), the settings will come from Application Options. And, if you change them in Application Options, the default settings in an Active Project will inherit the change. That is what I meant.

Many thanks!