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How to set RAL or Pantone color hue in Inventor?

Inventor doesn't support direct setting of color shades from a named color palette but you can use another component of Inventor Series - AutoCAD as a converter.

In AutoCAD, use the COLOR command, choose the Color books tab, select e.g. the "RAL CLASSIC" book and read the "RGB equivalent" values.

In Inventor (9,10,11...) choose Format - Style Editor - Color and set the "Diffuse" component (for Ambient and Emissive choose black, for Specular choose white). Click on the Diffuse pane, choose Define Custom Colors and enter the RGB values found in AutoCAD (the 0-255 range).

In higher versions, you can also import the RAL_Colors.styxml file containing the RAL palette for the Style editor, or a separate RAL .AdskLib material/appearance library (.adsklib will add RAL materials to Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD and other Autodesk software) - see Download.

Style editor - import STYXML

Do not forget to attach the RAL library to your project (right-click on the library node to add new):

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applies to: Inventor 9 · Inventor 10 · Inventor 2008 · Inventor 2014 · Inventor 2016 ·

See also:
Tip 13597:	How to convert RGB color to Pantone, RAL, AutoCAD ACI, CMYK or vice versa?
Tip 12833:	RAL color library (palette) for Fusion 360 (plus BS, AS, NCS).
Tip 11831:	Using the Pantone or RAL colors (palette) for your models in Fusion 360.
Tip 11714:	How to assign a RAL color to a DWG object and get its ACI equivalent?
Tip 6361:	Direct entry of a Pantone color hue for AutoCAD entities.

Selected tip: Rubik's cube in Inventor.

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