Wont Display the Polycarbonate (Clear)

[Elpants]

I have our electronics plates all drawn up and in a seperate assembly than the main chassis assembly.

In the electronics assembly the plate displays as the texture I set it as (Polycarbonate [Clear]). However when I do place this assembly in the main chassis assembly the plate itself is now the gray as material default.

I have turned up the settings in app options to no avail. I can still change parts to the texture of Polycarbonate so I know its just not displaying it because of a turned down display setting.


Any thoughts on how I can change this peice back to polycarbonate (clear)?

Not too big of deal thats holding back the rest of it, just a pet peeve

[Greg Needel]

are you just adjusting the colors or do you have material properties set?

If you set the color to "As material" then go and assign the part a material the texture should hold. If you are just adjusting the colors some times it will only apply to the face of the part and not hold from the part into the assembly.


to adjust the model material right click the model name in the model tree and select "iproperties" go to the "physical" tab then drag the menu to the material in question.

[Elpants]

Tried that, unable to adjust the property. Unless I have to do it in the original part file. Trying that next.
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/7392/cantut9.png

EDIT Well I tried changing the texture in the .ipt file to polycarbonate using the method you had me try and it worked.

[Eric Scheuing]

You need to edit the texture/material/color in the original part, not a sub-assembly.

EDIT: You can change the material in the entire assembly. That works just as well.

[Phil Ross]

When you got on to the assembly level did you try hitting the "update" bottom? I've made that mistake in getting frustrated over nothing. Once you set it to the Polycarbonate save it and then go to the assembly level and hit update.