Use this procedure to assign materials to the individual components of a slab or roof slab style. The components will then use the display properties of the materials instead of the style display properties.
You can assign a material to any physical component of the slab or roof slab. Custom components and components that are only symbolic do not use materials for their display properties. For example, the slab or roof slab body is a physical component, while the pivot point is a symbolic component.
- Open a tool palette that has a slab or roof slab tool, right-click the tool, and click Slab Styles or Roof Slab Styles. Note: Alternatively, you can select a slab or roof slab in the drawing, and click Slab Styles or Roof Slab Styles from the Edit Style drop-down on the General panel of ribbon’s contextual menu.
- Select the style you want to edit.
- Click the Display Properties tab.
- Select the display representation in which to display the changes, and select Style Override.
- If necessary, click
. - Click the Layer/Color/Linetype tab.
- Select By Material for any component to which you want to assign a material, and click OK.
If the setting for By Material is not available, the display of this component cannot be determined by a material.
- Click the Materials tab.
- Click the component you want to change, click its current material definition, and select a different material definition.
You can select any material definition in the current drawing, or click
to create a new material definition and assign it to a component. Danger: Any changes you make to the material definition in this dialog box will apply to all objects that are assigned the material. - Click OK.