Material designation will not change....even though I changed it!!!

Are you working in an assembly?

Try assigning the material in Simulate. Click on the assign material icon in the ribbon and see if this works.

Hope this helps,
Don Anderson

Hi,

What version are you using? I did the following in Creo3 M030.

From within Simulate Lite I am able to change the material properties using the 'assign' link at the bottom of the 'process guide'.

if I change the material I get the following dialogue:

I am able to re-run and get different results

I can also do this via the model tree from within Lite by right clicking 'material assignment'

I find when I delete the material assignment using the model tree, the process guide does not update until I try and run. It then fails stating that there is no material; which is true but late.

From within Parametric I am able to use FILE > PREPARE > MODEL PROPERTIES .... remembering to RIGHT CLICK ASSIGN

These properties are used in Lite even though I have other materials in the model 'loaded' when in Lite and I haven't used Lite to assign a material.

I can delete materials in the model via the model tree when in Lite. I can delete ALL materials from the model via the model tree. This is a change of behaviour from earlier versions of Simulate/Mechanica. It used to be that the material assigned in Parametric could not be deleted from within Simulate/Mechanica.

What should be changed is that when I assign a material in PARAMETRIC using FILE > PREPARE > MODEL PROPERTIES, then reassign in Lite using the 'assign' link at the bottom of the process guide, there is no warning that something is being 'overridden' (when I have seen it think the message uses the word 'hidden') in favour of my latest material selection.

This last point is something that happens in Simulate too. A model has material properties assigned but unless one is diligent enough to check the part in parametric there is no way of telling. A material assignment should automatically be created and visible in the Simulate model tree if a material was assigned to the part in Parametric.

Gentlemen,

Don, I am not working in an assembly. I have one part that I want to run comparative analyses to see my differences. I have tried assigning in and out of Simulate Lite.

Charles, I have tried all that you have suggested. Assigning and un-assigning both in and out of Simulate Lite does not give me any love. I can get to the Confirmation Window you have shown above, answer yes to both prompts and the material will not change. The only thing that has "worked" is I have gone as far a deleting ALL the materials AND the constraints AND the loads, save the model, exit (Creo2, by the way), come back in and assign the material I want. That is no solution but the only thing that seems to work.

And, how did you guys get "Correct" answers to my post before I responded? Isn't that up to me? ;o)

Thanks for the suggestions.