Configurations and Photoworks

As a rule of thumb I ALWAYS do material adding and/or editing at the
Part level. That said, I thought that I would be adventurous and try
configuration with Photoworks. Needless to say it blows up big time
once thrown into an Assembly in that when you render none of the
materials are there. I even went back into the Part level and switched
from "All" configurations to "Specify" configurations and it gave the
same end result.

So I had an "AH Ha"moment and thought, that I had missed something
thinking that maybe the work flow might be different for
configurations so I went to the Assembly and added different materials
to each of the features while I was editing each Part "So this should
solve my problem, right?" Click render and a big fat "NO" from the
program. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

This is huge!!! if this is a bug. I mean having to create 3 separate
files just to add materials from Photoworks makes me feel like Charlie
Brown running to kick the football while Lucy is holding it. Maybe one
of you guys know a work around, but for now it seems not to work the
way it should.

 

Maybe you just figured out the new SW logo.

CB kicking a football while L holds it.

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This is a bug and I believe it showed up in 2007. Configurations used
to be a great way to show different materials but in their current
state they are very frustrating.

The only workaround I know it to open the part file (every part file
with a configuration), cycle through and render each configuration,
CONTROL Q the assembly and then try rendering. Sometimes this works
and sometimes it doesn't.

 

Rob,

Can this be done throught the API? It may not work because sometimes
subassemblies will "remember" configurations that no longer exist in
parts or other subs.

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Possibly? I see no reason why you couldn't write a macro that would
cycle through the configs and render them. I'm not sure it would
solve the overall problem of the assembly remembering them.