Material and Supplier Overrides for Colorways
A component might require you to use a different material or supplier for a given colorway. A factory might be unable to supply a given material in a particular color, or a different material might look better in a particular color.
Because colors are tied to material-suppliers, overriding the material or supplier might require a change in the color selection as well, because any color selected or inherited for the given colorway might not apply to the new material or supplier. This is dependent on the color control mode of the new material. In cases where a color change is required, a change in material automatically clears any color settings that may have been applied for the colorway.
Material and supplier overrides are created using Colorways rows.
1. Click Variations and select the colorways that you want to create material or supplier overrides for.
2. Click the material expand icon
in the
Expand column to expand the
Colorways rows.
3. Clear the material and supplier from the row of the colorway that you want to override.
4. You can add a material to the Material column of the row using quick search, the Materials button, or the materials clipboard. Materials added obey any material constraints in place.
◦ The most efficient way to override only the supplier is to perform a quick search of the material, and insert the material with the desired supplier from the search results.
◦ If the color that was cleared is not available on the new material, you can select a new color. If it is available, you must reenter the color into one of the three intersecting cells discussed previously.