About Working With Material Tools

You can apply materials to objects in 2 different ways:

• Assign material definitions to individual components of an object through the display properties of its style.
• Use a material tool to apply a material definition directly to an object component in the drawing.
• Apply a render material from an AEC material definition to an AutoCAD object

The Design tool palette includes the default Material tool, which references the Material Definitions file and allows you to apply any of those material definitions. Many of these material definitions can also be applied through material-specific tools located on the Materials tool palette in the Visualization palette group.

You can also create custom material tools from other existing tools, from material definitions in Style Manager, or from render materials in the Content Browser.