I recently noticed that the incorrect material had been selected for one of our bolts. I changed it via the configuration wizard, but it won't update the assy.
In Inventor, you had to refresh the library items with a 'click-of-a-button' icon in the editor. Does Solidworks have the same?
Did you manually wrote the material name or selected from the Material list?
I originally used the SW marterial, but then created our own. All are linked to SW. I've changed this all in toolbox wizard. But, if I open the part, it still shows the incorrect material.
There seems to be a massive area for confusion in the way that this is all set up. If I open a bolt that I haven't used before, there is no material assigned when I open it, but the ones I have open up pre-assigned to a material. Why? What I wanted it to open up as a pre-assigned 'default' no material? Why does it save the assigned material? This should be only used in application!
If a part (configuration is already generated) then I believe that material won't change if you change it in the toolbox configure wizard. This means you would have to open those parts and reset the material for the the required configurations and save the file.
Oh my god! Really?! What if I change the material specs e.g. finish, and I have used loads of bolts, washers, nuts, pins etc? I would have to go through every single one, manually, and change change them one-by-one? I can't even check-out things in the toolbox without getting authorisation.
SW team - Why on earth would you make a possibility of an error like this?? The whole point of this is global changes should effect all -instantly. Computers are so much better at this than humans. It's like owning a modern can, but having to manually adjust the advance/retard - yeh it works, but it's not the best way to do it...
Martin, I may be wrong and what I have commented is my perception only. I would try conducting some test and hopefully prove myself wrong.
Anyone?
I've tried deleting the local cache, but nothing works. Apart from checking it out, or replacing the template, I'm not sure what will work.