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For design and presentation of exterior products (kids monkey bars, pools, garden equipment, etc.) you may need to show the model in terrain or in terrain sections - with grass and soil.

The material (appearance) library in Inventor already contains several suitable materials, including the neccessary textures. You can fiind them in the section "Sitework" - see Grass, Dirt.

An example of applying the marked materials for a pool rendering:

and the IPT model

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applies to: Inventor 2014 · Inventor 2013 ·

See also:
Tip 14349:12 free material texture libraries for PBR rendering.
Tip 14281:Mapped network drives (S:, T:, X:, etc.) are not available in my CAD application.
Tip 13824:How to export OBJ including materials, textures from Inventor?
Tip 13557:How to create an image with transparent background in Fusion 360?
Tip 13095:How to change material texture orientation in Fusion 360?
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