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Adding material to the 3D solid to give it a real-world look

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Adding material to the 3D solid to give it a real-world look

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- [Narrator] We're staying in our 3D plate .DWG file. And as you can see, we've done really well so far, we've got a 3D solid plate with our holes in it. And with the conceptual visual style, it looks quite realistic using that red color of the 3D solid layer that we put the 3D solid on earlier. Now, wouldn't it be really cool though if we could actually add some real metal to this metal plate. Well you can, you have materials available to you in the materials browser in AutoCAD. So let's have a look at how that works. You can come down here and in the visual style, we can say, okay, let's go realistic. And there's our nice realistic red of our 3D plate. And because I've done that, you can also see the circle there. So you might want to get rid of that now, select that circle, you don't need that anymore. You can actually delete that because you've used that to create the hole in the middle of your plate. So delete that…

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