Material Isolation (edit the material mode)

  • Isolate Material by Location or Isolate Material by Piecemark brings you into material isolation edit mode.
  • You can double-click the isolated material that is shown on your computer screen to edit it, or double-click one of the material's holes to edit that hole's hole group.
  • Options found on the Model > Material menu are enabled (not grayed out) so that you can, for example, peform cut operations on the material. Press the " Edit views " button to change or edit views.

To change the view of the isolated material that is shown in edit the material mode: 1 ) Press the " Edit views " button. 2 ) Change the view in edit views mode . 3 ) Press " OK " on the Isolate Submaterial toolbox. 4 ) The changed-to view is now shown in material isolation's edit the material mode..

  • You are in material isolation edit mode when these buttons are shown:

    • brings the isolated material into edit views mode so that you can edit the views that can be shown on its submaterial detail. As described in the above step-by-step instructions, " Edit views " also lets you change views for use in this mode (edit the material mode).
    • exits material isolation and brings you back to modeling mode. The material will no longer be isolated after you press this button.

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VIDEO The first part of this video shows the edit the material mode of material isolation.

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