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Shows the BIM material dialog. The dialog allows to quickly and easily perform material-related operations, with extra focus on efficient working with many objects and many materials.
- Create new material or multimaterial
- Attribute an existing material or multimaterial to selected object(s).
The materials manager
- (Optionally) select one or more objects
- Press the
Material button in the toolbar.
- If there is no existing material in the active document, the material manager window is not displayed, and a new material will be created.
- If there is at least one material or multimaterial in the document, the Materials Manager window will open.
The materials manager allows you to:
- Search materials by name: Use the search box
- Assign a material to the selected object(s): Pressing OK with a material selected will assign it to the selected object(s)
- Create a material: Press the Create new material button
- Create a multimaterial: Press the Create new multi-material button
- Delete a material: Select a material and right-click a material and choose "Delete"
- Delete unused materials: Press the Delete unused button. All materials that are not used by any object will be removed
- Merge duplicate materials: Press the Merge duplicates button. Merges the materials with exact same names (ex. Concrete and Concrete) or exact same names with a numeric suffix (ex. Concrete and Concrete001) together
- Rename a material: Right-click a material and choose "Rename"
- Duplicate a material: Right-click a material and choose "Duplicate". This will create a full, independent copy of the chosen material with same settings
- Merge two materials together: Right-click a material and choose "Merge to...", then select another material. The first one will be removed, and all objects that were using the first one will be assigned the second one
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