Custom Material Properties question
Custom Material Properties question
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I accidently misspelled an alloy name when I was adding a new one. How can I delete this from my custom material properties database? The button says edit/create but when I went to change it, it just added the correct spelling along with the misspelled one. Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!






RE: Custom Material Properties question
Just a guess. Find the file using explorer, copy it to someplace safe. Open the file in notepad, change the spelling and save it. If this does not work, put your copy back.
Bradley
RE: Custom Material Properties question
Find the database file and open it with Notepad. You can either edit there, or remove the material.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: Custom Material Properties question
Thanks again
RE: Custom Material Properties question
There isn't a way of removing them though from the DB once you put them in. - The remove is meant for you to remove the material from off the part. - See help on this.
To remove one you will have to edit the file itself. Those [] "Square zero" looking things are to be kept in there. It does make it hard to read but I wouldn't remove them unless you are removing and entire material.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: Custom Material Properties question
Bad--it's unusable after saving. Excel must add some invisible junk or something that corrupts it. I wonder if saving in different ways from Excel would keep it usable?
I may try to figure this out--to me, it would be easier to edit everything in Excel. Just thought I'd throw that out. Thanks,
Brian
RE: Custom Material Properties question
still something i'm not getting. when you edit a material database file (.sldmat) whatever you use to edit, you can't save it as a .sldmat file. Even if you don't change anything at all, and just make a new one, it will not re-open (at least for me and people where i work) in solidworks.
i tried saving it as excel, word, text, whatever, then renaming it, but it never works. just an error when you try to choose the "newly edited" database file.
can someone do a step by step of how to change the spelling on a material, then the proper way to get the updated .sldmat file to work??
Thank you
RE: Custom Material Properties question
If you're not able to do this, you must have another problem (is SW closed when you are editing the file? have you permissions the edit the file?)
Good Luck
RE: Custom Material Properties question
Regards
RE: Custom Material Properties question
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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