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September 12, 2018
Question

material appeareance - no color when assigning material

  • September 12, 2018
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Dear All,

 creo material appearance

I observe strange behaviour of creo in assigning colour that match material's appearance setup - part turn white after assigning material.

/my version 5.0.1.0, but it also was in previously installed 4.0/

 

Behaviour:

  • Assign material to a part
    • There is no colour - part turns white from default colour
  • I modify the appearance /default appearance/
    • Save this material - by save to library
  • Assign modified material to a part colour was taken from the material appearance correctly
  • When I turn off the creo and reopen it
  • Assign same material modified before
  • There is no colour
    • Part turns white In material properties of this material
    • Nearly all colours in material appearances window, turned white

In my config.pro appearance catalog, color.dmt file - is set to default Creo 5.0.1.0\Common Files\graphic-library\appearances

 

How to fix it? Is there any options that controls this behaviour?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards!

1 reply

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
September 13, 2018

Hi,

 

I guess that color definition must be present in global.dmt file.

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jim110-Marble
10-Marble
November 15, 2019

Same thing is happening to me. I can see that the global.dmt is not getting updated when I define the material appearance. Set the global_appearance_file option and made sure I have write access the the file too

 

Is this a bug?

 

Creo 4.0 M070

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
November 20, 2019
@jim1 wrote:

Thanks Martin but your method does not seem to work in Creo 4.0. I have a case open with PTC and they have assigned it to R&D. Something is not right with material appearances.

Hi,

I tested my procedure in Creo 4.0 M100 and it works well.

In attached 2019-11-20_community_material_s_barvou.zip file you will find:

1.] global.dmt ... it is placed in E:\PTC\Creo4_M100\Creo 4.0\M100\Common Files\graphic-library\appearances on my computer

2.] prt0001.prt.2 ... test model

 

My model contains two materials:

1.] STEEL ... I added ptc-metallic-blue (available in global.dmt) color into it's definition and set it as Default

2.] PVC ... I added ptc-painted-red (available in global.dmt) color into it's definition and set it as Default

 

If I assign STEEL material to the model ... it is displayed in blue color.

If I assign PVC material to the model ... it is displayed in red color.

 

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