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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

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Tom Chasteen
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Hi group,

Does anybody know abt catia and unigraphics usergroups please reply me

Thank you Red

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Raj Reddy

UG's can be found at

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there are a few Web Sites & "groups" that are related but not official.

CATIA has

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probably more. Ask there.

Reply to
Cliff Huprich

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

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Scott

catia:

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- the best!

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and Yahoo Groups - CATIA v5

Reply to
Jaro735

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

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Brenda D. Bosley

Brenda,

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

Wish me luck.

Tom

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Tom Chasteen

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