Create Materials

Materials and Textures

Modify Materials

 

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Apply Materials to Objects and Faces

Concept

Procedure

Quick Reference

You can apply a material to individual faces and objects or to objects on a layer.

To apply a material to an object or a face (a triangular or quadrilateral portion of a surface object), you can drag the material from a tool palette onto the object. The material is added to the drawing, and it is also displayed as watch in the Materials window.

When you create or modify a material in the Materials window, you can

• Drag the material swatch directly onto objects in your drawing.
• Drag the material swatch onto the active tool palette to create a material tool.
• Apply a material to objects by layer (MATERIALATTACH). The material is applied to all objects on the layer whose Material property is set to BYLAYER (the default).
• Assign a material to an object by clicking the Apply Materials to object button in the Materials palette.