Finish appearance override not displaying in Inventor drawing view

September 20, 2024 Joanna Gryszka

Issue:

Finish appearances are not displaying in Inventor drawing view even if saved in a Model State. The finishes display correctly in the model.

Cause:

The Finish appearance is not in the Project's active Appearance Library.

Or there's a corrupt document appearance that needs to be purged out: https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2025/ENU/?caas=caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Inventor-drawing-view-does-not-show-applied-finish-feature-appearance.html

Solution:

Change the finish appearance and purge all document appearances/materials per Autodesk's article.

2. If this doesn't resolve it, edit the finish appearance. Choose an appearance that's in the Project's active appearance library:

To edit a project in 2023-2025

For example, this project's active Appearance library is the 'Inventor Material Library'

Choose any Finish Appearance in this active library:

To add new Finish features in the Finish.xml file: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-easily-edit-the-Finish-xml-file-for-the-new-Inventor-Finish-feature.html

To add a Finish appearance to the Model State table: https://resources.imaginit.com/support-blog/inventor-add-finish-feature-to-model-state

About the Author

Manufacturing Technical Support Specialist<br><br>Joanna has over eight years of experience working with Autodesk products. She started supporting core AutoCAD and network installations of all Autodesk products. She now has five years of experience with Inventor. <br> She graduated from Mechanical Engineering and has been providing solutions to clients and dedicating her knowledge to the Solution Center since then.
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