I'm sure this is an easy question but I never deal with textures and surface finishes so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  I want to one of my plastic parts to have a surface finish.  Not a custom one, just one of the standards - PW-MT11240, from the Plastic>Textured category.  I apply the texture, and other than the color nothing seems to change.  I've tried a number of different appearances and a few of them work (if my part were made of wet concrete, I'd be set).  But it seems that all of the textured plastic appearances are identical on my part. 

I've noticed that lots of scenes don't do anything either - all of those ones with backdrops (factory background, courtyard background, etc).   I'm sure this is related.  A display settings that isn't correct?  I'm using Solidworks 2011.

Any suggestions?  Is this something that just appears when I render it?  I was hoping to have something that would show up in an edrawings later for a presentation I need to give...

Thanks for any suggestions. 

Michael