Materials Browser
The Materials Browser displays all materials in a document, allows you to create, edit and assign materials to drawing objects.
Ribbon: Manage – Palettes > 
Material Browser
!{IMAGE-LI Menu: View – Render > Material Browser
!{IMAGE-LI Menu: View – Render > Material Browser
Menu: View – Toolbars – Functional > Material Browser
Command line: MATBROWSEROPEN
The Materials Browser is displayed as a toolbar containing all materials of the current documents.
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Create a new material with a set of default properties. |
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The way materials are displayed in the browser: icons with a preview or a simple list of names. |
Right click on a material opens the context menu with an additional list of available actions:
* Edit – editing material in the Materials Browser;
- Apply to selection – applying material to selected 3D objects of the workspace;
- Clone – creating a new material identical to this one;
- Remove – removing the material;
- Rename – changing the name.
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Double click on the material in the Materials Browser opens it for editing in the Material editor.
It is possible to assign a material to the selected object not only in the Materials Browser, but also on the Properties bar in the drop-down list of the Material parameters.
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