In the last installment of this tutorial, we left off with the Shaker Table having a new Inventor Material and Color applied, but things look all caddywhompus due to the way Autodesk Inventor color is applied. In this post we will fix the colors to make everything look copasetic…
Like almost every function in Autodesk Inventor, there more than one way to skin this cat. Inventor color overrides can be applied at the feature level by right clicking on a feature in the Browser Bar, or by doing the same to a solid body in the Solid Bodies folder –which would add the override to all of the features contained within said solid, or by selecting one or more faces in the modeling environment.
For this exercise, we will be using the third method, selecting faces. What you need to do is select all (or as many as you can in one go) faces that have the grain going the wrong way by selecting the first face, then holding down the Ctrl key and selecting more. When you have them all, or as many as you can, right click anywhere in the modeling environment and choose Properties…
Then select the Wood – Southern Yellow Pine (90) then click OK (there is no penalty for doing this in several passes except time, so take as long as you need to get it done).
The end grain on the top will look fair to middling as the grain is pretty straight…
It would look better with an actual end grain texture, but what we have will have to do for the purpose of this tutorial. There is one more area that you may want to change. The corner brackets. If you want the top and bottom of these to look right, you will need two more Inventor colors, one at +45° and one at -45°. If you do add these new Inventor colors, just right click the Top solid from within the Solid Bodies folder and make it invisible until you complete the task…
Note in the image above that I selected two top and the two opposing bottom faces of the brackets. Saves a bit of time. And there you have it…
That’s it for the Inventor color and material portion of the Shaker Table series of tutorials. I’ll be working on the iLogic stuff after the Holiday. Till next time…
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