You can define all render materials in the entire catalog at catalog level in advance, which saves you a lot of valuable time when assigning them later.

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	The great advantage of centralized management of materials is that you can make changes for many affected projects with little effort. In addition, the appearance of the 3D view can be designed very attractively.

	Important
	Preferably use the render properties [Render attributes] and not color [Color] for new projects. With color, you can otherwise only use RGB values for the face attribute in PARTdesigner. Render materials can be used to store the correct material in the catalog.

In PARTproject on the Tabbed page General on directory level of a catalog, the line Manage render materials [Maintain render materials] can be found under the catalog settings [Settings for the catalog]. By clicking on the button ... button at the end of the line of Manage render materials [Maintain render materials] opens the dialog window Render materials.

Manage render materials [Maintain render materials]