Adding Materials to Drawings

A Material Library is installed with AutoCAD Civil 3D by default. You can open the Tools Palette and either drag a render material into a drawing or insert the material by using the Add to Current Drawing command.

To add materials to the current drawing

1. Click Home tabPalettes panelTool Palettes Window.
2. In the Tool Palettes window, right-click the Tool Palettes Window button, and choose Civil Materials from the list.
   Note

   In addition to civil-specific render materials, you can access and use all the render materials contained in the AutoCAD Materials Library palette. Choose one of the Materials Library palettes from the Tools Palettes Window context menu.

3. In the Civil Materials palette, do one of the following:
   • Right-click the swatch representing the chosen render material and select Add to Current Drawing.
   • Drag and drop a render material swatch into the drawing.

   The selected render material is added to the drawing. For more information, see “Materials Dashboard and Tools Palettes” in AutoCAD Help.