BIM Material
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| Menu location |
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| Manage → Material |
| Workbenches |
| BIM |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| - |
| See also |
| None |
Description
Shows the BIM material dialog. The dialog allows to quickly and easily perform material-related operations, with extra focus on efficient working with many objects and many materials.
- Create new material or multimaterial
- Attribute an existing material or multimaterial to selected object(s).
The materials manager
Usage
- (Optionally) select one or more objects
- Press the
Material button in the toolbar.
- If there is no existing material in the active document, the material manager window is not displayed, and a new material will be created.
- If there is at least one material or multimaterial in the document, the Materials Manager window will open.
Material manager tools
The materials manager allows you to:
- Search materials by name: Use the search box
- Assign a material to the selected object(s): Pressing OK with a material selected will assign it to the selected object(s)
- Create a material: Press the Create new material button
- Create a multimaterial: Press the Create new multi-material button
- Delete a material: Select a material and right-click a material and choose "Delete"
- Delete unused materials: Press the Delete unused button. All materials that are not used by any object will be removed
- Merge duplicate materials: Press the Merge duplicates button. Merges the materials with exact same names (ex. Concrete and Concrete) or exact same names with a numeric suffix (ex. Concrete and Concrete001) together
- Rename a material: Right-click a material and choose "Rename"
- Duplicate a material: Right-click a material and choose "Duplicate". This will create a full, independent copy of the chosen material with same settings
- Merge two materials together: Right-click a material and choose "Merge to...", then select another material. The first one will be removed, and all objects that were using the first one will be assigned the second one
BIM
- 2D drafting: Sketch, Line, Polyline, Circle, Arc, Arc by 3 points, Fillet, Ellipse, Polygon, Rectangle, B-spline, Bézier curve, Cubic Bézier curve, Point
- 3D/BIM: Project, Site, Building, Level, Space, Wall, Curtain Wall, Column, Beam, Slab, Door, Window, Pipe, Pipe Connector, Stairs, Roof, Panel, Frame, Fence, Truss, Equipment
- Reinforcement tools: Custom Rebar, Straight Rebar, U-Shape Rebar, L-Shape Rebar, Stirrup, Bent-Shape Rebar, Helical Rebar, Column Reinforcement, Beam Reinforcement, Slab Reinforcement, Footing Reinforcement
- Generic 3D tools: Profile, Box, Shape builder..., Facebinder, Objects library, Component, External reference
- Annotation: Text, Shape from text, Aligned dimension, Horizontal dimension, Vertical dimension, Leader, Label, Axis, Axes System, Grid, Section Plane, Hatch, Page, View, Shape-based view
- Snapping: Snap lock, Snap endpoint, Snap midpoint, Snap center, Snap angle, Snap intersection, Snap perpendicular, Snap extension, Snap parallel, Snap special, Snap near, Snap ortho, Snap grid, Snap working plane, Snap dimensions, Toggle grid, Working Plane Top, Working Plane Front, Working Plane Side
- Modify: Move, Copy, Rotate, Clone, Create simple copy, Make compound, Offset, 2D Offset..., Trimex, Join, Split, Scale, Stretch, Draft to sketch, Upgrade, Downgrade, Add component, Remove component, Array, Path array, Polar array, Point array, Cut with plane, Mirror, Extrude..., Difference, Union, Intersection
- Manage: BIM Setup..., Views manager, Manage project..., Manage doors and windows..., Manage IFC elements..., Manage IFC quantities..., Manage IFC properties..., Manage classification..., Manage layers..., Material, Schedule, Preflight checks..., Annotation styles...
- Utils: Toggle bottom panels, Move to Trash, Working Plane View, Select group, Set slope, Create working plane proxy, Add to construction group, Split Mesh, Mesh to Shape, Select non-manifold meshes, Remove Shape from Arch, Close Holes, Merge Walls, Check, Toggle IFC Brep flag, Toggle subcomponents, Survey, IFC Diff, IFC explorer, Create IFC spreadsheet..., Image plane, Unclone, Rewire, Glue, Reextrude
- Panel tools: Panel, Panel Cut, Panel Sheet, Nest
- Structure tools: Structure, Structural System, Multiple Structures
- IFC tools: IFC Diff..., IFC Expand, Make IFC project, IfcOpenShell update
- Nudge: Nudge Switch, Nudge Up, Nudge Down, Nudge Left, Nudge Right, Nudge Rotate Left, Nudge Rotate Right, Nudge Extend, Nudge Shrink
- Additional: Preferences, Fine tuning, Import Export Preferences, IFC, DAE, OBJ, JSON, 3DS, SHP
User documentation
- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub