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If you drag the material from an archive, it will appear in the palette where
it can be edited and saved with the scene, if necessary.
Presenter uses Autodesk Navisworks selection resolution to decide which
items to apply the material to when dragging from an archive or palette into
the main view. When hovering over any item in the main view, the proposed
selection will change into the selection color (blue by default). When you
drop the material onto the current selection, it will be applied to all the items
selected. If you drop the material onto an item that is not currently selected,
it will be applied to just that item. See
Set Selection Resolution (page 345) for
more information on selection resolution.
You can also apply materials to items by selecting the items in the Selection
Tree or Scene View, right-clicking the material in the palette, and clicking
Apply to Selected Items.
Rules can also be used to apply materials to items automatically based on their
layer or color or selection set names, for example. See Use Presenter Rules
(page 596) for more information on this.
You can remove materials assigned to geometry items, either from the
Presenter window, or directly in the Scene View or Selection Tree.
Inheritance
Layers can have colors, just as geometry can. If a layer has a material, all its
children in the Selection Tree inherit this material, until one of the children
is assigned its own material, at which point, all its children in the Selection
Tree inherit this material, and so on.
You can drag and drop materials onto layers. Only the layer picks up the
material, and although its children inherit the material, they do not have it
explicitly assigned to them.
Therefore, right-clicking such a child will not allow you to remove the material
because one was not explicitly assigned in the first place.
However, if you use a rule to assign a material to a certain color, then all
objects in the scene will get this material explicitly assigned to them, including
parent layers and child objects. If, with a selection resolution of something
like Geometry (which is more specific than a resolution of Layer), you
right-click a child object, and click Remove Materials on the shortcut menu,
then the material will be removed from the child object, but not from the
parent layer and there wont be any apparent difference.
To remove the material, you will, therefore, have to remove it from the parent
object; in the above situation this would be the layer.
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