How to use Material Favorites without changing Appearance?

[Dwight]

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I would like to implement Material Favorites, but we'd prefer to avoid surface textures. Any way to do this, a setting we can use?

Thanks

Dwight

[David Matula]

You could just edit the material appearance in the material selection to be what you like to see. I would suggest at least changing the color so that you can look at the thumbnail, or model and know that a material has been applied,

[SPerman]

The solidworks materials definition lives here:
C:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS\lang\english\sldmaterials.sldmat

In there, for each material, there are definitions for the finish. I assume if you delete that information, it will not change the part when that material is applied.

Having said that, you either can't change the default values, or it is not recommended. You should instead create custom materials.

https://help.solidworks.com/2020/Englis ... eating.htm

This is the listing for 6061-T6. I would delete the shaders and swatch color and see what happens.

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<material name="6061 Alloy" matid="21" envdata="1" appdata="Material Financial Impact data is based on bulk raw material price computed from 1. MetalPrices.com (2012). Accessed May 15th, 2012, from http://www.metalprices.com/">
      <shaders>
        <pwshader2 name="satin finish aluminum" isNewShader="1" path="\metal\aluminum\satin finish aluminum.p2m" />
        <cgshader2 name="satinfinishaluminum" />
        <pwshader name="polished aluminum" />
        <cgshader name="Aluminum6061Alloy" />
        <swtexture path="images\textures\metal\cast\cast_fine.jpg" />
      </shaders>
      <swatchcolor RGB="DDDDE3">
        <sldcolorswatch:Optical Ambient="1.000000" Transparency="0.000000" Diffuse="1.000000" Specularity="1.000000" Shininess="0.310000" Emission="0.000000" />
      </swatchcolor>
      <xhatch name="ANSI38 (Aluminum)" angle="0.0" scale="1.0" />
      <physicalproperties>
        <EX displayname="Elastic Modulus" value="0.69E+11" />
        <NUXY displayname="Poisson's Ratio" value="0.33" />
        <GXY displayname="Shear Modulus" value="0.26E+11" />
        <ALPX displayname="Thermal Expansion Coefficient" value="0.24E-04" />
        <DENS displayname="Density" value="0.27E+04" />
        <KX displayname="Thermal Conductivity" value="0.17E+03" />
        <C displayname="Specific Heat" value="0.13E+04" />
        <SIGXT displayname="Tensile Strength" value="1.24084E+8" />
        <SIGYLD displayname="Yield Strength" value="5.51485E+7" />
      </physicalproperties>
      <custom>
        <prop name="Financial Impact" description="" value="2.228" units="USD/kg" />
      </custom>