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Hei,    
        I wonder if anybody has experience with asigning marerials to parts.
I have created a motor in Modeler which I want to insert a number of times
in a final assembly (refferencing is a little inconvinent as there are many
instances) Creating a part from the motor seems to work fine to an external
library file (*.dgn).
I created the object from solids using color 3 (red) as it's clear on a
black background
Before I created the part I asigned a material - polished black- to the
motor from a shared palette (finnish.pal).  
When I place the part in the assembly it renders the creation color and not
the assigned material.
Is this a bug - trying to reassign the material in the assembly drawing
returns - element not found.

Thanks for the assistance

        Cormac

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Though it creates just a bit more work, you'll find its much easier in
the long run to make Level/Color Assignments for materials vs. attaching
materials.  For instance if your part in on level 1, you could assign
Level 1 Color 3 to be polished black.  I have found that material
attachements are finicky, while assignments are very straightforward.

Jeffory

Hello Cormac,

When you assign a material to the part in the part file (using assign by selection), it
will create a material table stating which (level, color) combination is mapped to which
material. That material table is specific to that file. You will either have to re-assign
the materials in the assembly file, or you have to cut and paste the entries in the
material table (.mat) file for the part file to the material table file for the assembly
file.

The other method of assigning materials to Modeler solids, using an attribute that will be
attached to the element, is not supported with Modeler solids.

Regards,
Martin Waardenburg