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Material Database

Material Database

Material Database

(OP)
Hey Everyone,

I have a question regarding the material database (sldmat) file. We run a custom version, basically it is a stripped down one of the default with several items for us. Anyway, we are beginning to rollout SW2008 and am having trouble getting 08 to view the database. Anyone else run into this??

I am getting a "Incompatible Material Database. Probably this database may be of a higher version and not compatible with present version" fault.

Confusing since it is a version that ran fine in SW07 and I am trying to run it in SW08.....

Any help is appreciated

RE: Material Database

That is really odd since the material database file is an ascii file, editable with notepad.  Have you looked at the default file with 2008 and compared it to your file?

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

RE: Material Database

Mine runs fine in 08. I didn't have to do anything to change it.

Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
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RE: Material Database

(OP)
I think I have solved this, apparently SW2008 material database does not support a “rgb” value of zero. This is one of the colors that we had as default on one of our custom properties. I opened up the .sldmat file using notepad and searched for rgb and took another value from elsewhere in the file and substituted it for <0>

For example

Was

   <cgshader name="water"/>
        <swtexture path="images\textures\metal\rough\lead.jpg"/>
    </shaders>
    <swatchcolor RGB="0">


Changed to:

   <cgshader name="water"/>
        <swtexture path="images\textures\metal\rough\lead.jpg"/>
    </shaders>
    <swatchcolor RGB="c0c0c0">


All seems well after this change

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