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Materials Panel

Bar. Click on the surface to load its material Painter tool. Depending on the currently
assignment. The pointer then changes to active Material Painter Mode, you can
indicate that the material is ready to be continue to apply the material to the surfaces
applied to another object using the Material
of other objects.

Materials Panel

The specification dialogs for most objects assigned, the appearance of the preview
include a MATERIALS panel. Select an object image on the right side of the dialog updates.
or a group of similar objects and click the
If the selected object is using a material that
Open Object edit button to open the
specification dialog for that selection. is missing its texture, a Caution symbol
will display next to the Materials panel name
On the MATERIALS panel, you can specify in the list on the left side of the object’s
material assignments for the components that specification dialog. See “Referenced Files”
make up that object. When a new material is on page 70.

1 The table on the left side of the panel As changes are made to the selected object,
lists the components of the selected components may be added to or removed
object that can be assigned unique materials, from this table.
along with the names of those materials and • Click on a Component in the table to
whether or not the default materials are used. select it. Multiple line items can be added
Some objects may have only one component to the selection set by holding down the
while more complex objects may have many.

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