Glitch with Photoworks Materials...

[esfr]

Hello all, I am in a real bind and any help would be greatly appreciated. Been using Photoworks for over a year now, so I thought I knew it pretty well. But all of a sudden, my renderings started coming out with all materials in "Light Concrete". I've tried EVERYthing, from changing materials (of components, faces, features, etc) to changing Photoworks settings, and regardless of what setting I've chosen or what material the Material Manager tree says I've applied, the resulting render is always in all concrete.

Even when I click "Show Solidworks Colors in Photoworks", I still get a rendering with the Photoworks light concrete material. Nothing I can do, short of clicking "Render Contours Only," will get rid of the concrete in my renderings. Driving me crazy. Any suggestions? Should I just try to reinstall it or something... by the way, I'm using Solidworks '07.

 

[esfr]

I should add that "Light Concrete" does not show up in my Materials Tree, which makes it all the more strange that it is being applied in my renderings. Also, I CAN actually add other materials, I'm realizing, but they are layered on top of the light concrete... ie, I can add a blue plastic material to a part, and that's all that shows in my material list, but then the rendering comes out blue with concrete texture...

 

[rockguy]

Are you using SolidWorks 2008?

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SW 2007 SP 2.0

 

[esfr]

SolidWorks 2007.

 

[rockguy]

Sorry, you mentioned that in your original post and I missed it.

I'm stumped. If you were using 2008 I had a good idea what the issue was. I've personally never seen this happen but I seem to recall someone else e-mailing me about this issue. His problem turned out to be his network location for his custom materials being in correct.

This sounds like a stupis question I know....have you tried rebooting you're machine?

Rob Rodriguez CSWP

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SW 2007 SP 2.0

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If rebooting doesn't work, try faq559-507

 

[esfr]

thanks for the suggestions guys! i did try rebooting to no avail. i think this problem began actually a week or so ago, and it's persisted for this long... i can't remember if i changed anything in my options or did anything that could screw it up like this. i'm going to try that registry solution now, let you know if it works.

 

[overkill4]

I've found odd material behavior when I have multiple configurations in a rendering with different materials. Not exactly what you're talking about but you never know.



60% of the time, it works every time.

 

[rockguy]

Yes, this is a current bug overkill4 (it used to work great having configurations)and I'm sorry to say it's not fixed in 2008 SP0

Rob Rodriguez CSWP

http://www.axiscadsolutions.com

http://www.robrodriguez.com

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/

Eastern Region SWUGN Representative

http://www.swugn.org

http://www.nvtswug.com

SW 2007 SP 2.0

 

[esfr]

ahh... reseting solidworks by renaming the registry directory worked! what a relief. now i get to work all night to catch up on lost time!