Auto Paint is a feature in Visualize that doesn't seem to receive much attention but could be very useful for some users. It's something Ron and I are touching on during our SWW presentation. I've made a video for attendees of the session to watch at their leisure because we just don't have time to fully cover in it in our 60 minute time slot and it's not the direct focus of the session.
I thought I'd post it here so you guys could watch it and hopefully get some use out of it. If you like what you see and are going to be at SWW we will have lots of great information in our session like this.
SW Visualize Auto Paint on Vimeo
Rob
Rob,
First of all thanks for the info, this should be a great feature & I was unaware of it.
Unfortunately I am having issues with Visualize importing SolidWorks appearances, even before this feature. The first image below is from SolidWorks & all materials are applied at part level, but as you can see, all materials with the same name are appended with a number. Unfortunately this number is imported into Visualize & so all materials that are actually the same appear as a different material & cannot be grouped as identical materials. So the only part that is auto painted is the large mounting plate in the second image from Visualize as it is the only part with the "correct" name for auto paint to match.
Is there a setting I'm missing to prevent this appended number transfering to Visualize or can a future software update prevent this number from being copied across?