Create materials and material libraries

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In this video you'll learn how to create and edit materials

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and more specifically

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you'll create an 8" tile material and

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define the graphics and appearance properties.

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You'll then see how to create a material

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library and add materials to the material library

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in rev it

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materials control how model elements display in views and rendered images.

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To see all of the materials in your project,

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switch to the managed tap

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in the settings panel,

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click materials to open the material browser

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in the material browser.

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You can see a large list of materials and you can browse through the list

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or you can search for a specific material by typing in the search field.

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Additionally,

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at the bottom of the material browser you can expand

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home and then see the material libraries that are open

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in this example there's just currently won the A. E. C.

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Materials library and you can expand that to then

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access the various categories of materials and materials.

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For this example I'll type tile into the search field

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and then the list is filtered to just the materials that contain the phrase tile.

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Additionally

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at the bottom

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the list is filtered as well to show the materials in the material libraries

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that contain

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the phrase tile.

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In order to add a material from a library

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into the project.

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You can hover over a material listing

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and then click the arrow button where the tool tip says adds material to document

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And when you do

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that material will be added to the project and

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will be available for use in your project.

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If you do not see a material that you need,

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you can create a new material or you can duplicate an existing material.

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For example, when you right click a material

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there are two duplicate options,

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duplicate material and assets which will duplicate the material

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as well as duplicate the material assets.

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The second option is duplicate using shared assets.

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When you use that option,

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it will duplicate the material but keep the same material assets.

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In other words,

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they will be shared between the duplicated the new

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duplicated material as well as the material that was duplicated

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for this example I'll select duplicate material and assets

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and now I can enter a new name for this material.

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I'll change it to 8" and then press enter

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and I can simply select it when I select it in the material browser.

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Then all of the material parameters will appear over in the material editor.

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There are several tabs on the identity tab.

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You can control the material name as well as descriptive information,

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any product information that you want to add and

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additionally rabbit annotation information which contains the material.

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Keynote parameter

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on the graphics tab.

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You can control the shading which will control

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how the material appears in a shaded view.

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And then you can also control the surface pattern and cut pattern

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for this example

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the under surface pattern and foreground. I'll click in the pattern field

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and it opens up the fill patterns. Dialogue

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and I can select either a drafting pattern or a model pattern.

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I'll switch to the select model and then scroll down

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and I'll select eight inch tile and then click OK

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under the under surface pattern, under background.

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When I click in that field you can see that only drafting is available.

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So for foreground patterns you can select either

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a drafting pattern or a model pattern.

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But for the background fill patterns, you can only select drafting patterns.

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So that's something you need to be aware of.

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And then similarly you could add a cut pattern if needed.

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If that material requires a cut pattern depending on

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how it's going to be used in the model.

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You could specify that as well

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on the appearance tab.

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You can control how the material will appear in a realistic

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visual style as well as when the material is rendered.

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And then there are also physical and thermal assets that can

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be modified and those are used for analysis of that material.

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At this point we have a new material created

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Now let's take a look at how to create a new material library.

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How clear the search field here

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and then at the bottom

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I will expand the button at the left here which says creates,

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opens and edits user defined libraries.

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And when you expand that

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you can choose to open an existing library.

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So if you already have a company material library that you need to

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open you can choose that option or you could create a new library.

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I'll select that option.

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And then for the name I will enter

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insert prep and then click save.

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And now I have a new material library created

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called cert prep.

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When I right click the cert prep material library I can

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create a category so I could create a category of materials.

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I could rename it several options here.

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I'm going to go back to the search field and type

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tile and I'm going to look for the new material.

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We just created our eight inch tile and I'm gonna right click that material

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and then I'll select add to and now I can see my favorites,

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I can add it to favorites and then I can also

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add it to the new material library that we just created.

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So I'll select certain prep

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and now I've just added our new material to the cert prep material library.

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Once again we could add additional categories to that material library.

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Then we could go through here and add additional materials and then

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we'd be able to use that material library and other projects.

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And once again, if you open up a new project,

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simply expand this button at the bottom and select open existing library and

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then all the materials that you added would be available in that project