Rendering Material Dialog Box

General

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.
  1. Click the Browse button. The browser is opened.
    • My library is displayed in the browser if the user has added their own materials and
    • Vertex library with materials added by the software supplier.
  2. Browse the folder structure.
  3. Double-click the thumbnail of the desired material.
    • You can recognize the software supplier's parametric materials from the naming practice "parametric".
  4. If necessary, edit the parameters of the parametric 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
  1. Click the Pick from surface button.
  2. Click the desired surface in the model.
  3. If necessary, edit the parameters of the parametric rendering material.
Change All Similar
  • The option is available only for assembly models when only one part is selected.
  • All parts or surfaces of parts with the same rendering material as the selected part will receive the new selected rendering material.
Configuration Effect
  • This section is displayed in the dialog box only if the model has other configurations in addition to the basic configuration (0).
Select
  • Affects at all configurations if there is no need for configuration-specific rendering materials.
  • Affects at selected configurations if you want to define individual rendering materials for configurations.
If you selected Affects at selected configurations., then select
  • the configurations you want to attach the rendering material to.
  • Select All if you want to select a large number of configurations and then drop some configurations off