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How to make a grass or soil material in Inventor?

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.

Appearances (CZ)

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 ·

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