Material display in parent assembly

[munners]

Hi guys

Using NX 7.5, I have built an assembly (call it assembly A) and applied materials to the all the components. If I do a studio display of Assembly A it all looks good with various colours, translucency etc. and I can produce a high quality image.

I then added this to another assembly (Assembly B). When I make assembly A the work part, I can see all the materials etc in the "materials in Part" Navigator but NX doesn't display the various colours, translucency etc. although it does highlight them using the "where used" function. Similarly when Assembly B is the work part, I cant see any of the materials.

How can I get all the materials to display correctly so that i can do a high quality image of Assembly B?

Thanks

Munners

 

[munners]

Bump

 

[Toost]

I have some problems following you in the description above
so instead i will try explain how it works from scratch.

If you set/ assign materials on the lowest level, "leaf part" or "piece part", then the applied material will "be there" in any assembly above as soon as you either display "studio mode" or do a static rendering.

If you assign materials to "components" while in an assembly, you can ONLY render THIS assembly. - The applied materials will not be visible in higher level assemblies.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[munners]

Thanks Toost

I'll go back and apply materials at a component level.

Munners