Setting Priority Between a Part and a Product 

This task explains how to set material visualization priority between the material applied to a Part and another material applied to a product.
Open the PriorityProduct1.CATProduct document.

The document contains a part, a part instance and a product onto which three different materials have been applied. By default, the material mapped onto the Product is displayed, having precedence over any other element into the document.
Therefore, in our example, the Alpine Fir material is visible:

  1. Right-click the Alpine Fir material in the specification tree and select Properties to display the Properties dialog box.

  2. Select the Inheritance tab.

    The three available inheritance modes are the following ones:
    • Propagates material towards children: the material propagates towards
      lower levels in the hierarchy (default mode). 
      The corresponding material icon in the specification tree is .
    • No propagation of material towards children: the material does not propagate.
      The corresponding material icon in the specification tree is .
    • Force material and do not accept material from father: the material is
      forced, i.e. it is visible even if an upper level material propagates.
      The corresponding material icon in the specification tree is .

  3. Select No propagation of material towards children.

    The element visualization is instantly modified, and you can now visualize the material mapped onto the part instance.

    The geometry now looks like this:

  4. Click OK.

    Selecting Force material and do not accept material from father would give the following result:
To be able to visualize the material mapped onto the lowest element in the specification tree (the part here) you only need to force the material on this element.