Isolate Material by Location Command

Isolates the material that you select in the model and brings you to an edit the material mode.
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1 . Select the material that you want to isolate. You must select a material, not a member.

2 . Invoke Isolate Material by Location using one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1: Click the Isolate Material by Location icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found when a material is selected on the Materials contextual page > Drawings section.

Method 2: Isolate Material by Location can also be invoked using the Find Tool by searching the command name.

3 . Material isolation's edit the material mode opens. The isolated material is shown from the perspective of preset view number 0 and is displayed per User and Site Options > Modeling > " Member isolation solid display type ." To change to a different view or edit views, press the " Edit views " button.

Note: Ways to select a material for isolation include:

  • Use the Model Tree (as shown in step 1).

  • In Select Items mode with the selection filter set to " Default ' or " Material ', place the mouse pointer ( ) over the one (1) material that you want to isolate, then left-click ( Select ).

  • To select a material that is hidden by another material (or if " Default ' is the selection filter and you want a member main material), hover the material in Select Items mode, then right-click ( Menu ), choose " Select other " and select the material mark of the material.

  • The initial mode that Isolate Material by Location brings you into is called edit the material mode . In this mode, you can double-click the material to edit it, or you can double-click a hole to edit that hole's hole group. Pressing the " Edit views " button brings the material into isolation's edit views mode , where you can edit or delete or add views but not edit the material or its holes.
  • Preset view number 0, which is the view that is first shown when you Isolate Material by Location correlates to the main view of the material on its submaterial detail.
  • Any view changes made in edit views mode apply to all sumaterial with the same mark and will be incorporated into the submaterial detail when you Detail Submaterial . Unless you choose to apply Change Options , operations applied in edit the material mode apply to the one material only.
  • You can press " Edit views ," change to a different view, then press " OK " to exit views mode and go back to edit mode with the changed-to view shown.
  • Edit views mode works on all materials with the same material mark. Any changes to material views made in isolation are automatically applied to all materials with the same material mark. Views that are selectable on the view list in material isolation's edit views mode become the views that are shown on member details after Detail Submaterial .