Hello,
I have assigned faces on a component with appearances. These faces show various different colours.
When I import the Assembly that contains said component, the faces are NOT seperate entities any longer and I cannot add materials to individual faces.
This is very frustrating as it worked perfectly well with SW2012SP5.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I have tried appearances on the Part file - on the body, face, surface and feature. Nothing works, it's all the same appearance on all of the faces of the part.
Is the problem with changing appearances in Keyshot or SolidWorks?
Cheers,
Anna
Changing the appearances in SolidWorks has remained the same.
SW2012SP3 Models inserted into Keyshot and it was easy to change all of the seperate faces in the model.
SW2013SP3 Models insterted into Keyshot - all of the faces are the same entity i.e are NOT seperate.
I am doing nothing different with SW or Keyshot, it's obviously the software that's at fault, maybe Keyshot needs updated in some way to accomodate the new SW update?
Probably would be best go over to the Keyshot forums and ask since it is a problem with their software.
Cheers,
Anna
I posted on the Keyshot Forum before posting on this forum.
Have you called the Keyshot Tech Support or their offices? Not sure what SolidWorks people can do since they do not write the Keyshot code.
Does Keyshot have a bug reporting mechanism?
Have you tried Keyshot 4.1? It was released this week. I think it can be downloaded.
Cheers,
Anna
I posted on both the Keyshot and SolidWorks Forums to find out if either programme was responsible for the error.
I don't know if Keyshot has a bug reporting function - I only deliver SW Assemblies to our Graphics guy.
I'll ask him to try Keyshot 4.1 asap.
Thanks for your help.
Mark, SW composer has this restriction, where you can only assign appearance properties to a whole body. what you can do in that program is clone the body and explode the clone into seperate faces. I've done this a couple of times when I had to put labels on parts, and I'm hoping that I don't have to answer the question of what happens when those components underlying geometry changes. Whenever I confront this problem I grumble under my breath about composer costing so much and being outclassed by Blender for texturing, animation and model editing and then get on with my life.
In your case, I'm going to be wicked suprised if Keyshot can't do sub-object selection because apparently it's one of the best photorealistic renderers in the world or something, so I'd be looking at the Keyshot import options to see if you can turn off face knitting or automatic vertex welding.
If it's the case that you can't select faces, the only thing I can suggest is saving your solidworks assembly as an iges file and if Keyshot doesn't import IGES, re-import the file back into SolidWorks as a part with your IGES settings changed to
Nurbs surfaces instead of BREP and turn off the options to knit surfaces and form solids. You'll also want to uncheck the 'import multiple bodies as parts' control if the IGES importer has it.
That will give you a model made entirely of surface objects and you can import that into Keyshot and do your materials and
rendering there.
Have you tried add appearances at part level? Using Appearances at Assembly level does not give one enough control over said faces, this is because part level overrides assembly level.