Polycarbonate Smoke

[Anonymous]

I am using Inventor 2014.  I have a part that I want to change the material to Polycarbonate-Smoked.  However, the color comes out black rather than the beige smoke color it normally does.

I deleted the material from the Document Materials and deleted the color from Document Appearances.  When I try to add the material back from the Material Library, I get a message that said "A material or appearance with the same name exists in this document.  The local copy with this document will be used.  

Inventor then gives me the material but with the black color.  If I try to edit the color from the Inventor Material Library,  it brings up a black custom color rather than the Polycarbonate-Smoked color.  Also I cannot delete the black custom color.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Anonymous]

I am using Inventor 2014.  I have a part that I want to change the material to Polycarbonate-Smoked.  However, the color comes out black rather than the beige smoke color it normally does.

I deleted the material from the Document Materials and deleted the color from Document Appearances.  When I try to add the material back from the Material Library, I get a message that said "A material or appearance with the same name exists in this document.  The local copy with this document will be used.  

Inventor then gives me the material but with the black color.  If I try to edit the color from the Inventor Material Library,  it brings up a black custom color rather than the Polycarbonate-Smoked color.  Also I cannot delete the black custom color.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[melvin.valverde.delgado]

Hi cadcamm99,

If the material has been modified the ideal is to return it to its default. 

You can do this replacing your current library with the one attached. Please be aware that any Custom Material will be deleted. To avoid this please check the following article:

Migrate Color Styles to Appearances and Migrate Material Styles to Materials

The attached file should replace your current InventorMaterialLibrary.adsklib in the following path: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Design Data\Materials 

I hope this information helps you.

[melvin.valverde.delgado]

Hi cadcamm99,

If the material has been modified the ideal is to return it to its default. 

You can do this replacing your current library with the one attached. Please be aware that any Custom Material will be deleted. To avoid this please check the following article:

Migrate Color Styles to Appearances and Migrate Material Styles to Materials

The attached file should replace your current InventorMaterialLibrary.adsklib in the following path: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Design Data\Materials 

I hope this information helps you.

[Anonymous]

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Actually, It didn't work.  The colors still come in incorrect.  The Polycarbonate-Smoke still looks solid instead of smoked and so does the Polycarbonate-Clear.  It seems like the smoke properties do not work anymore.  It was working fine before but now I am not sure why it does not work anymore.

[Anonymous]

Actually, It didn't work.  The colors still come in incorrect.  The Polycarbonate-Smoke still looks solid instead of smoked and so does the Polycarbonate-Clear.  It seems like the smoke properties do not work anymore.  It was working fine before but now I am not sure why it does not work anymore.

[Anonymous]

Here is what it looked like before and here is what it looks like now.

[Anonymous]

Here is what it looked like before and here is what it looks like now.