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Add Ability To Change Appearance / Finish When Placing Content Center Parts
Please can you add the ability to select the appearance / finish when placing content center parts in to an assembly.
You can select the component, size and base material but not the appearance / finish.
For example when placing a screw, I have created custom content center versions with material grade 8, 8.8, 10.9, 304, 316 etc. These can come in a variety of finishes such as self-colour (black), zinc plated (chrome) etc.
This isn't quite what you're asking for, but might be a workaround you could use to improve however you're doing this now. The last time I made major changes to our CC libraries, part of what I was doing was adding different finishes to our hardware. I achieved it by making copies of the physical material and setting their default Appearance.
For example, instead of a material called "Steel" with an appearance of "Zinc", I made a copy of the "Steel" material, renamed it to "Steel - Zinc Plated", and set the default appearance to be "Zinc". I did something similar for all of the finishes we commonly use (which, thankfully, is not that many).
Might not be practical depending on how many different combinations you get into, but it works reasonably well for us. The biggest problem I have with it in my implementation is that the "default" material seems to just be the first possibility alphabetically, which works out to be the "Steel - Black Oxide" version. We usually prefer zinc, but black oxide is the default and sometimes isn't noticed by engineers in a hurry.
