I would expect that if I drag-and-dropped a selected material over another that Visualize would offer a contextual dialog to replace the old material with the new.
Or, if I right-click a material, possibly a menu item that offers to replace with another.
Right from the Appearances palette.
Is there an existing workflow for that?
Hi Dexter ,
would you be able to add a little bit more info , Visualize can do both of these things from what I can see.
if you drag an appearance over a part and hold your mouse button it will show you a preview and if you move your cursor off the part it will not apply the appearance.
you can also copy an appearance (CTRL+C) and Assign it (Right Click Assign Appearance to) to an existing appearance to propagate it to all parts of that appearance
Yep - that's it! Copy and paste works perfectly.
Thanks.
Yes! Thanks for the copy paste trick! My work flow just exponentially dropped on prep time!
I just learned this today.
If you hold shift down and left click on an appearance and then right click while still holding shift down on an area the appearance will be pasted there. Faster way to copy/paste an appearance.
This is a super handy shortcut that I use constantly ,
that being said if you have an appearance applied to many parts that you want to change all at once the Assign appearance towill replace it globally and will be much faster than the SHIFT LMB and SHIFT RMB
Hi Dexter ,
would you be able to add a little bit more info , Visualize can do both of these things from what I can see.
if you drag an appearance over a part and hold your mouse button it will show you a preview and if you move your cursor off the part it will not apply the appearance.
you can also copy an appearance (CTRL+C) and Assign it (Right Click Assign Appearance to) to an existing appearance to propagate it to all parts of that appearance