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Old drawings have it cached in memory and do not update with the changes made to the Design Data folder. You have to relaunch Inventor each time you adjust a setting and create a new drawing each time to read the lighting.xml correctly. I played with it for about an hour but i could not find the right configuration of settings to get it just right. If you modify the Lighting.xml in your Design Data you can try and force the drawing to appear differently. the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be implemented.Ī little background on what is happening though.Inventor drawings use a Default Lighting styles regardless of what lighting style you choose in the modeling environment. Until then you might want to promote this idea on the Inventor IdeaStation. I opened a case with Autodesk to see if they could give me a backdoor since I know a guy or two there.
I had a solution working but it was VERY messy and not worth the effort due to the inconsistency that I got with it. In your example you are actually using MultiBody Parts so even that idea is out the window. Most Inventor users will just call out the material in a Parts List on the drawing. Well that answers that about the Parts List.