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Material by face or material by component

Material by face or material by component - SketchUp Tutorial

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Material by face or material by component

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- [Narrator] Now, we've worked our way through chapter four, and we've done some very specific things to our desk. Now, this exercise, or more of an explanation rather than an exercise at chapter 4-07, is going to explain some of the reasons why we did what we did. Now, we've got a duplicate set of volumes here. We've got a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder. And, this lot are colored by component, whereas these three are colored by face. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, if I select this blue one, and it's deliberately washed out, as opposed to a sort of bright blue, because I'll also want to show you how we expect them to come into Revit. This has got the color applied to the component, and if I double click to edit the component and then triple click the geometry inside, that selected all 18 entries, then we can see that it's the default color value, which is effectively no color. And, on this one, if I select the wrapper, and it doesn't have a color applied to it, but if I go inside…

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