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Hi. I have an assembly with a part in it. The part has a certain Material in its Properties. I want to propagate this Material (Properties) to Assembly Properties. I copy-paste from part to assembly Properties. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Why this behavior?

Why do you want "Material property" in assembly?
Assembly is a group of different parts which made out of different materials.

It's the standard company. I know what is an assembly. Assembly: a sheet metal part with PEM inserts. On the assembly drawing, for manufacturing, the sheet metal material must appear, in a table with General Information.

From the solidworks help:

"Applying a Material
You can apply a material to a part, one or more bodies of a multibody part, or one or more part components in an assembly."


https://help.solidworks.com/2023/englis ... Redirect=1

I do not believe it is possible to assign the assembly a material.

I'll try to make a copy of a part where it works and one where it doesn't and attach them.

Here it is an example where it works. I'm able to copy-paste the Material Property from Part to Assembly.
For the moment I can't replicate the situation when it doesn't work!!

I have done this in the past, but there is a manual update if filenames change.
I assign a property called "Material" in my part that is set to the SolidWorks material. I then may put a property in my assembly called "Material". It gets set to "SW-Material@<partname>.SLDPRT". This will bring the text material name to the assembly. I can then show that material on a drawing using the property name. Would that get you what you need?

Or can you force the table to use the part rather than the assembly for that piece of information?

Yes, that's what I do. The problem is that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
And I try to understand why. Thanks.