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Applying materials

Applying materials - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Applying materials

- [Instructor] At this stage in the game, we're ready to start applying materials to our model. So, jump over here to the Appearances toolbar. You can see here these are the appearances that have already been applied to this model. Now most of these appearances have been brought in from SolidWorks originally. Now we can continue to use these appearances or we can create a brand new appearance down here, or a new decal, or I can go over here to the Library and then select different styles of appearances. So down here under Metal for instance, I can double click and then grab any of these metals and just drag and drop. I bring them over here, drop them on one of those parts, let go, and now that appearance has been added to that part. If you want to modify that individual appearance, go back over here to the Appearances tab at the top. And now here at the bottom, Gunmetal has been added. Right at the bottom of that list, you can see there's that Gunmetal. If you click on it, then you…

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