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Three Autodesk Showcase Tips
9 Dec, 2010 By: Stan WileAvatech Tricks Tutorial: Most users don't know about these methods for changing materials on specific surfaces, creating cross sections, and using the highlight pointer.
Editor's note: This tutorial courtesy of Avatech Solutions.
Tip 1: Place a material on specific surfaces. There are times in Autodesk Showcase when you would like to change the materials of only a few surfaces of a part. In the past, the only way to do so was to choose import options that brought in every face as a separate part. This made it a real chore to select every face of every part when changing materials. Starting in Showcase 2011, you can now create a new part from selected surfaces. In this example I would like to highlight the raised edges on this hub.
We want to highlight the raised edges on this single hub without affecting the entire part.
It was created as one part in Inventor, so I will need to create a new object out of the raised edges I plan to highlight. Do this by selecting Edit > Fix Object Patches > Extract Patches As New Object.
The location of the new Extract Patches As New Object command.
Once the Extract Patches as New Object dialog box appears, you can select all the surfaces that will make up the new part. Here I selected all the raised edges on the hub.
All raised faces on the hub have been selected and are ready to be turned into a new object.
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