Material replacement

This command is used to replace general Woodwork for Inventor materials with the specific materials required to begin the production. During the replacement, changes can be made to the codes, names and material appearance.

To open the command, go to:

Woodwork Design –> Material-> Replacement

Or the command can be accessed from BOM generator window.

Full Material replacement dialog

Tool bar.

2.	Material configuration management.

3.	Filtering field.

4.	Finding the material by the specified element in the furniture model.

5.	Material replacement desktop.

Apply Appearance Image replacement – replaces appearance images with new images. This way a different colour display of the model being designed is given.

OK – closes the window and leaves replaced codes and names imported by the active replacement configuration.

In the tool bar, material replacements are used to manage operational aspects.

	Displays only the materials that are used in the model.
	Displays the entire Woodwork for Inventor material database.
	Groups materials by colours.
	Groups materials by materials.
	Switches to the extended display of replacement data.
	Switches to the summarized display of replacement data.
	Automatically applies the replacement made at the higher level of the material summary to all the lower tree branches.
	Automatically applies the replacement made at the higher level of the material summary to all the tree branches that previously have not been filled in.

The user always works with some kind of material configuration. Immediately after the installation of Woodwork for Inventor, Default configuration is always active. This configuration cannot be removed. The user can create new configurations, edit and remove them.

Material Replacment Configuration control

Active configuration selector	allows setting up the active material replacement configuration.
"New"	Allows creating new empty material replacement configuration.
"Copy"	Allows copying the existing material replacement configuration. Apply all replacement – when activated, the option means that all material replacements registered in the copied configuration will be applied to the opened model.
"Remove"	Removes the active material replacement configuration. Automatically activates the Default configuration that cannot be removed.

"Filter phrase"

Once the text is entered, filters summary items containing the filtering phrase.

Finding the material by the specified element in the furniture model

By clicking on this button, you can specify any component in the furniture model that has Woodwork for Inventor Fill material assigned to it. This fill material will be found in the material replacement desktop and the cursor will placed on its item.

By clicking on this button, you can specify any component in the furniture model that has Woodwork for Inventor Cover material assigned to it. This cover material will be found in the material replacement desktop and the cursor will placed on its item.

Material replacement desktop

1.	Icon of the displayed material type.

2. Shows a hierarchical material summary tree that is displayed using the selected material grouping method.

3. The area that displays information about the material stored in Woodwork for Inventor material database.

4. The button that opens the dialog box, which allows hiding/covering the selected data column displayed in area 3.

5. The area used to manipulate the replacement data. Display form depends on the selected display option:

a.	Code and Name fields are always used for textual information: These fields have the following button . Once you click on this button, value selection window will be opened. Values selected by double-clicking the mouse are imported into the replacement data row.

b. Appearance field can be used to specify the image file that will be used to display the material or colour.