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    About Creating Custom Material Tools

    In addition to using the standard Material tool on the Design tools palette, or the material-specific tools on the Materials tools palette in the Visualization tool palette group, you can create your own material tools in a number of ways, as explained in the following topics.

    Related Concepts

    • About Working With Material Tools
    • About Materials
    • About Objects that Support Materials
    • About Material Components and Display Properties
    • About Working With Surface Hatches
    • About Overriding the Surface Hatch on Individual Objects
    • About Creating and Editing Material Definitions

    Related Tasks

    • To Create a Material Tool From a Material Definition in Style Manager
    • To Copy a Material Tool on a Tool Palette
    • To Create a Material Tool From a Render Material in the Content Browser
    • To Use the Material Tool to Add Materials to Objects
    • To Apply Material Tool Properties
    • To Display Materials in a Drawing
    • To Display a List of Materials
    • To Display a Material Query

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