Directly Edit Inventor Material Libraries

[petestrycharske]

All,

Good morning!  Currently to edit a material library material, one has to copy it to the local document, perform the edits to the document material and then copy it back to the library to overwrite the library material.  It would be nice, if there could be a way for certain users to have permission to edit and directly alter the library, without having to copy the materials locally.  If anyone has any questions or knows of another way to do this, I would love to hear about it.  Thanks in advance for your vote, hope all is well and have a most blessed day!

Peace,

Pete

[ic198]

You're right, the current process is very frustrating. A couple of other ideas:

1. It should be possible to rename a material without creating a whole new material. When updating old parts with the current library the rename should be recognised, so old parts inherit the new name automatically (not have to be assigned the 'new' material, as at present)
2. Being able to edit Material Libraries in Excel as suggested in the post below would also be very useful

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/export-and-import-materials-library-with-excel/m-p/742...