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New material library in Inventor 2013.

The new unified material library in Inventor 2013 and other Autodesk products allows to manage both visual (color, appearance, transparency...) and physical material properties in a single place.

You can extend the predefined material library with your own materials, create new libraries, or change properties of the existing materials.

The material editor can be invoked through the ribbon Tools > Material and appearance > Material. Double-click on a material to launch the editor dialog, where you can adjust the material properties and assets - color hue, reflections, transparency, but also thermal conductance, Young modulus, density, yield strength, etc. The editor window is split by aspect to "Appearance" and "Physical" tabs:

Appearance (CZ) - Physical (CZ)

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applies to: Inventor 2013 ·

See also:
Tip 14027:	3D heart from the heart.
Tip 13824:	How to export OBJ including materials, textures from Inventor?
Tip 13095:	How to change material texture orientation in Fusion 360?
Tip 12833:	RAL color library (palette) for Fusion 360 (plus BS, AS, NCS).
Tip 12237:	UnfoldRS - unfold 3D surfaces to 2D in AutoCAD.

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