User Manual - Page 939

For AUTOCAD 2011.

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7 If you have dragged the render material onto an AutoCAD
Architecture palette, finish the creation of the AEC Material tool.
â–  Select the temporary icon on the tool palette.
â–  In the Create AEC Material Worksheet, select an existing
material definition for AEC Material to use as a Template.
NOTE The material definition you select as template will define
all initial material settings except for the rending material. These
include the layer, color, and linetype settings, hatching, surface
hatch assignments, and the behavior of the material when used
in a section.
â–  Enter a name for the new material definition.
â–  Verify that Convert to AEC Material tool is selected.
â–  Click OK.
A notification message appears, reminding you to save the
drawing after dismissing the notification so that the material
tool is saved with the current drawing.
8 If you have created a material tool by dragging a render material
to a tool palette, update the tool image to display the AutoCAD
Architecture material tool icon.
9 Select the material tool on the palette, right-click, and click
Properties.
You can see that the icon preview is different from the Viewer
preview.
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