Select or edit the material in the Rendering Material dialog box.
Dialog Box Options
- Material name
- The current material. Select a material by clicking the Select or Pick from surface button.
- Select
- Select a material from the library.
- Click the Select button. The browser is opened. The browser shows the My Library (user's materials) and Vertex Library (software supplier's materials).
- Open a folder/subfolder.
- Double-click the thumbnail of the desired material. You can recognize the software supplier's parametric materials from the naming practice "parametric".
- If necessary, edit the parameters of the parametric rendering material.Edit the parameters of the rendering material.
- The default folder in the browser has been defined with the keyword lw_mtrl_folder in the system Preferences.
- Pick from surface
- Pick the material from a face in the model
- Click the Pick from surface button.
- Select the desired surface in the model.
- If necessary, edit the parameters of the parametric rendering material.Edit the parameters of the rendering material.
- Edit
- The function is available, if the part/face has a material. The editable properties depend on the material and the additional features of the software.
- If you are using the Rendering additional feature, you can edit the parameters of parametric rendering materials and the shading properties of non-parametric materials.
- Without the additional feature, you can edit the parameters of the parametric rendering material. If the part/face has a material, and the button is not displayed, the material is not parametric.
- Edit the Parameters of a Rendering Material
Edit a Material's Shading Properties - requires the Rendering add-on.