MaterialLibrary is an object for accessing materials in the Woodwork for Inventor material database. All materials in the database are grouped into palettes. As you know, during the installation of Woodwork for Inventor, a Woodwork for Inventor palette is created, which is the first one in the palette collection.
Palette is an object that is used to store records of individual materials (Palette Items).
PaletteItem is an entry containing a description of a fill material that does not have a colour property. This group includes the following types of materials:
PaletteItemWithColor is an entry containing a description of a fill material that also has a colour characteristic. This type of object has all the properties of palette items and in addition has a colour characteristic. This group includes the following types of materials:
CoverPaletteItem is an entry containing a description of a cover material. This type of object has all the properties of a palette item with colour and in addition has a thickness characteristic. By the way, thickness is declared in Autodesk Inventor’s internal length units – centimeters. This group includes the following types of materials:
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