Blocks appear not to update

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

@hwansey

To me it looks like you inserted the undercarriage when you already had a layer named Hub in your file, along with the material assigned to that layer.

When inserting the file as a block instance you won’t get new layers from the file being inserted - instead the already existing layer is used.

Either you should ensure there are no existing layers yet - or no layers with the same name in different files you’re about to insert. That will give you the behavior you’re looking for.

This is related to Material assignment with blocks - #19 by hwansey, right?

I missed your reply there, but will do so here

For a file such as the assembly file, is it better practice to assign the render material in the assembly file and to leave the files used as blocks empty? I am deliberately adding the blocks as “active” as opposed to “referenced” in order to consolidate the building material in the assembly file and to be able to render by layer and not by object.

I was thinking this may have the added advantage of being able to save the block files as “save small”. Is this the case?

I’m not sure what the best practice here is.

I don’t understand what you’re getting at with consolidating building material. Maybe @pascal or @BrianJ could shed some light on this. Same as for the “Save Small” part - I would think this doesn’t make a difference, but I’m not a deep expert on this area.