NX Black Dash Displayed In Used Column When Assigning Materials

2021-10-06T23:26:55Z
NX for Design

Summary


Details

Having modified a custom MatML xml file, and restarted NX, a black hyphen is displayed in the Used column when opening the Assign Material dialog.



Solution

This can occur when two loaded MatML files share the same material name. The list of materials will show two entries for duplicate material and the second one will display a dash in the Used column. 


Hovering over the dash displays a tooltip. In NX8.0 the tooltip states: "Material already loaded with the same name". NX9 states: "Material already exists with this name".


As the duplicate material has been identified either delete the material from one of the files or rename it to make it unique.



Notes and References


Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: window
OS Version: 764SP1
Product: NX
Application: DESIGN
Version: V1847
Function: FEATURE_MODEL

Ref: 002-7007401

KB Article ID# PL7007401

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