Material Editor Menu Bar

The various menus and menu commands that are specific to the Material Editor are described below.

Tasks corresponding to general menu commands are described in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

PLM Access

The PLM Access menu lets you create, open and save materials as well as export them in 3D XML.



New

See Creating Materials

Advanced Search

See Opening Existing Materials

Propagate

See Saving Materials

Export

See Exporting Materials in 3D XML (from Search Results window only - Navigation window)

Import

See Material File-based Design Import

Edit

The Edit menu lets you manage links and relations, edit the material's properties as well as control editability for materials.



 Links and Relations

See Applying a Core Material

See Applying a Covering Material

See VPM Editor User's Guide: Editing Links

Properties

See Editing Materials

See Modifying Material Properties

See Modifying Material Domain Properties

See Realistic Rendering User's Guide: Modifying Material Lighting Properties

See Realistic Rendering User's Guide: Modifying 2D Texture Properties

Display Editability Editors

See Controlling Editability for Materials