Materials Database

I recently finished a job in which I designated all channel, angle, bar,
pipe, sheet, and plate. (i.e. C Channel 8 x 11.5, A36). This seemed to
work fine and all of my materials were correct in the BOM. However, the
materials database does not sort alphabetically and now in my steel database
I have all sorts of materials in the reverse order in which they were
entered. This makes it a little difficult to find the materials I've
entered.

Is there a program which will allow us to edit the database?

How are you guys using the new material manager?

Tom

 

Hi group,

Does anybody know abt catia and unigraphics usergroups
please reply me

Thank you
Red

 

How does this have anything to do with what Tom asked about... Red?

 

catia:

www.catiav5forum.de - the best!

www.cad.de

www.cad-portal.com

and Yahoo Groups - CATIA v5

 

Tom,

Back to the original question...

It looks like the material database is an XML file which could be edited
with an XML-editing program or even in a text-editor if you're brave. Do a
RMB "Open with" on the file name since otherwise Win Explorer won't know
what to do with a ".sldmat" file extension (just pick NotePad for starters
to get a feel for the general layout). You might want to create a new
database to play around with to avoid putting the primary one at risk since
this is going around the intended safeguards.

-- Brenda

 

Brenda,

Thanks. I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.

Wish me luck.

Tom