Subassembly Appearance Disappears in Assembly

[logan_armagost]

Apologies if this has already been addressed. I was not able to find a thread that did so. 

Here is my situation:
I have a part file (Part A) with a material and corresponding appearance applied. I put the part A in an assembly file (Assembly 1) and then I click the part and change the appearance to another color. This works as expected. The color of the part changes in the context of Assembly 1 but stays how it was before when the part is opened on its own. When I place Assembly 1 into another assembly (call it Assembly 2), I would expect it to retain its appearance settings. After all, I'm placing Assembly 1 (where I made the change), not Part A. However, this is not the behavior I'm getting. The appearance of Part A inside Assembly 1 when placed in Assembly 2 reverts back to the original color of the standalone part. Why? Is it possible to have sub-assembly appearance overrides permeate when placed in another assembly? I would expect them to until another override is made in the higher level assembly file, but this doesn't seem to be the case. 

Thanks

[kacper.suchomski]

Hi

The appearance of an assembly is local.

You can use a view representation and insert a subassembly in the style set in that representation.

[logan_armagost]

So I need to save the appearance setting in Assembly 1 as a design view representation, then activate that from the context of Assembly 2? Is there a way to save the appearance in the default design view so it always comes in as the correct appearance?
Thanks

[kacper.suchomski · Accepted solution]

Nope. As I mentioned, appearance overrides are by default a local feature.

[logan_armagost]

Okay, thank you. Do you know where I can submit this as a suggestion for future improvement?

[kacper.suchomski]

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/inventor-ideas-en/tab/most-recent

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Logan,

The Design View Rep behaviors can be subtly confusing. I think there should be a way to yield the desirable behavior. If possible, please share an example that illustrates the issue. I would like to take a look  to understand the issue better.

Many thanks!