I upgraded from 2007 to 2008 sp1.1 recently.
I have over the years created a  custom sldmat file for materials that
my company uses.
 If I open an existing 2007 part that uses our custom material
everything is fine.
If I try to edit the material in 2008 and use our custom materials
data base I now get:

"Incompatible Material Database.
Probably this database may be of Higher version and not compatible
with present version.

0xc00ce201 : Error parsing '0' as hexBinary datatype.
The attribute 'RGB" with value '0' failed to parse."

 Does anyone have any suggestions?

On Jan 10, 2:44=A0pm, George <dmars...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> =A0I upgraded from 2007 to 2008 sp1.1 recently.
> I have over the years created a =A0custom sldmat file for materials that
> my company uses.
> =A0If I open an existing 2007 part that uses our custom material
> everything is fine.
> If I try to edit the material in 2008 and use our custom materials
> data base I now get:
>
> "Incompatible Material Database.
> Probably this database may be of Higher version and not compatible
> with present version.
>
> 0xc00ce201 : Error parsing '0' as hexBinary datatype.
> The attribute 'RGB" with value '0' failed to parse."
>
> =A0Does anyone have any suggestions?

Well, my first suggestion is to call your VAR.  This may be a real
bug.

Matt Lorono
http://sw.fcsuper.com
http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog

Yes, this is a bug.  It is scheduled to be fixed in SP 3.0.  There is
discussion about this issue on the SolidWorks Forum

https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=8203&highlight_key=y

Cheers,

Anna Wood

On Jan 10, 5:56 pm, Anna Wood <a...@acrodesigns.com> wrote:
> Yes, this is a bug.  It is scheduled to be fixed in SP 3.0.  There is
> discussion about this issue on the SolidWorks Forum
>
> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=8...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anna Wood

 I finally found the work around in the SolidWorks Knowledge base.
Basically I had to edit the sldmat file using notepad and assigning a
RGB value everywhere it said '0'

Thanks