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Applying appearances

Applying appearances - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Applying appearances

In this movie, we're going to be applying appearances to the individual parts, faces, or bodies seen in the model. To get started, I want to choose a face that I want to apply appearance to. And that's this part here. If we open it up, we applied the titanium material to that, in the last movie. Now what I want to do is add a painted finish to the top surface. Let's go back to the assembly. Over here on the right, if I click on the little beach ball icon, you can see that I've got appearances on the top, which apply color. Then come down here to the different types of materials that I can apply. And go ahead and click on painted. I can say spray paint. I can have a black spray paint. I can use powder coat or a car paint. I'm going to chose the car paint here because it doesn't really matter. Even if you're not painting a car, you can still use those materials. So I'm going to use this black one at the very top. And if I grab that material and I click with my left mouse button, and…

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