MatBrowserOpen

Drawing Materials

A list of material definitions contained in the current drawing.

Drag and drop a material onto an entity to assign the material.

Right click a material to display a context menu:

• Addmaterial(s) to library: copies the selected material(s) to the materials library (= the folder which is defined by the RenderMaterialPath user preference).

• Change row height: Choose Small, Medium or Large in the context menu.
  
  

Library Materials search field

Allows fast filtering of the material list

Type a search string in the search field. Only materials that contain the search string in their name are listed. The material list is updated as you type.

Click the X-button at the right hand side to clear the search field.

Library Materials list

Click the Download, Name or Category column heading to sort the list accordingly. Click again to reverse the sort order.

Right click a material to display a context menu:

• Add material(s) to drawing: copies the selected material(s) to the current drawing.

• Delete material(s): removes the selected material(s) from the materials library (= the folder which is defined by the RenderMaterialPath user preference).

• Cancel download: stops an ongoing material definition download.

• Change row height: Choose Small, Medium or Large in the context menu.
  
  

Download field:

The down arrow indicates that the material is not downloaded yet. Double click to download the material.
Downloaded materials are saved in the folder which is defined by the RenderMaterialPath user preference.
(e.g. C:\ProgramData\Bricsys\RenderMaterials).

Drag and drop a material onto an entity to assign the material. The definition is added to the current drawing.

If a not-yet-downloaded Redway material is dragged onto a material, the download operation is started and a message displays:

The Redway high-resolution material definitions are used exclusively by the Render command.

For real-time display, lower-resolution dwg-compatible definitions of the same materials are used.