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Inability to apply materials

Question asked by Tom Arthur on Oct 12, 2011
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Hiya,

For some reason, I am suddenly unable to apply any custom materials. The Material Display manager opens as it should, you can browse and select a custom P2M or JPEG as normal, orientate/resize it, but then when you tick OK, it thinks and thinks and thinks for eternity. I've tried lots of different files, at different levels (part/body/face etc) which have all worked fine before.

I initially thought it was a problem linked to a large assembly i've been working on, but its the same problem if a create an entirely new part, having restarted the computer.

I seem to be able to apply default materials fine.

Does anyone have any ideas? I've got deadlines looming and without being able to apply materials i'm stuck!

Thanks,

Tom

Tom Arthur Oct 18, 2011 11:08 AM

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In case anyone is interested, i finally managed to fix my problem... its not entirely logically, but turning Open GL on caused it to start behaving normally... and then, bizarrely, when Open GL was turned off again it continued to work.

Not sure the reasons behind this, but the main this is that i'm back up and running.

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Rob Rodríguez Oct 12, 2011 10:59 AM

I've had this same isue on one of my machines recently. It's a HUGE PITA and I haven't found a reason why this happens.

My work around.

Apply your custom appearance as you would normally. The thing to notice is what you are applying your appearance to (face, feature, body, part, component) doesn't actually get listed in the property manger (on the mapping tab or color tab). So as far as SW is concerned you're apply your apperance to nothing. You have to specifically make sure what you want to apply the appearance to is listed in the property manager and sometimes so have to toggle the "apply at part level" "apply at component level" settings to be able to actually add geometry to this location.

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Tom Arthur @ Rob Rodríguez on Oct 12, 2011 11:39 AM

Thanks for the response Rob,

Unfortunately I think my problem is different... the part/body/face IS listed in the property manager... and previews perfectly in the graphics window. Its only when you tick ok that it goes into thinking mode. I've since discovered that (on my simple part) it does eventually work - however, getting back into the material property manager for that item (to make changes) takes an eternity, and then another eternity to get back out again (roughly 3 mins!)

Like i said, nomal default materials work just fine.

Another other ideas?

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Tom Arthur @ Tom Arthur on Oct 17, 2011 12:07 PM

HELP!... i'm only adding this in the hope that my original post will come to someones attention. I've just re-installed Solidworks, which i thought would fix my problem, but no....

Unfortunately we recently cancelled our technical support from our VAR (since we can generally get any questions answered on this forum!).

Just to clarify, this issue is NOT linked to a specific part, and NOT linked to a specifiic material/image.

So, surely reinstalling should revert to default settings and solve the problem right?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Tom

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Tom Arthur @ Tom Arthur on Oct 18, 2011 11:08 AM

Not sure the reasons behind this, but the main this is that i'm back up and running.

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Rob Rodríguez Oct 12, 2011 10:59 AM
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I've had this same isue on one of my machines recently. It's a HUGE PITA and I haven't found a reason why this happens.

My work around.
Apply your custom appearance as you would normally. The thing to notice is what you are applying your appearance to (face, feature, body, part, component) doesn't actually get listed in the property manger (on the mapping tab or color tab). So as far as SW is concerned you're apply your apperance to nothing. You have to specifically make sure what you want to apply the appearance to is listed in the property manager and sometimes so have to toggle the "apply at part level" "apply at component level" settings to be able to actually add geometry to this location.
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- Tom Arthur @ Rob Rodríguez on Oct 12, 2011 11:39 AM
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  Thanks for the response Rob,
  Unfortunately I think my problem is different... the part/body/face IS listed in the property manager... and previews perfectly in the graphics window. Its only when you tick ok that it goes into thinking mode. I've since discovered that (on my simple part) it does eventually work - however, getting back into the material property manager for that item (to make changes) takes an eternity, and then another eternity to get back out again (roughly 3 mins!)
  Like i said, nomal default materials work just fine.
  Another other ideas?
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  - Tom Arthur @ Tom Arthur on Oct 17, 2011 12:07 PM
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    HELP!... i'm only adding this in the hope that my original post will come to someones attention. I've just re-installed Solidworks, which i thought would fix my problem, but no....
    Unfortunately we recently cancelled our technical support from our VAR (since we can generally get any questions answered on this forum!).
    Just to clarify, this issue is NOT linked to a specific part, and NOT linked to a specifiic material/image.
    So, surely reinstalling should revert to default settings and solve the problem right?
    Does anyone have any suggestions?
    Thanks, Tom
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    - Tom Arthur @ Tom Arthur on Oct 18, 2011 11:08 AM
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      In case anyone is interested, i finally managed to fix my problem... its not entirely logically, but turning Open GL on caused it to start behaving normally... and then, bizarrely, when Open GL was turned off again it continued to work.
      Not sure the reasons behind this, but the main this is that i'm back up and running.
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