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…

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