Add new materials to a palette

Kirk,

Sorry for the slow response, I usually keep an eye on the Visualization forum for these kinds of questions.  Hopefully this is still useful to you!

If you want to add a material to an existing palette, click either on the palette or on one of the materials in the palette where you want your new material to be and then go to Material -> New.

 

This will create a new material inside the palette, but the material is currently stored locally and will not be available once you move to a different file.

If you right click on your new material, you can choose "Copy to Library" which will add the material to the .dgnlib that houses the palette.

When it's successfully added to the library, the icon will change to this:

From here you can start working on your actual material.  The first step here will be adding a pattern map, which you can do by clicking on the checkered box next to the Color slider.

 

From here there's a lot that can be done and you can find some insight as to what all of these settings are by looking at the documentation and by browsing the MicroStation Visualization forum.

The Visualization forum is located here: http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_visualization/default.aspx

HTH,

Evan

 

HI Evan,

I like this thread too, May you capture this as a wiki page in Visualization forum, it helps rookies like me a lot.

Hi Frank,

I'm glad this is useful to you!  I'll definitely consider getting this together for the Viz wiki and maybe looking at some often overlooked barriers to entering the visualization world.

Thanks,

Evan

If I may, then would like to suggest: As you would like to create your own materials, then DO NOT change materials provided with MS; instead - create your own colour palette, and there create your own material as explained above.
Thanks.
Nikolay V.

Hi Kirk
Maybe I am very oldschooled , but my way for any challenge in MS is firstly think /no chance to do it?/ , then open Help, if nothing then open old, but still very good books from Jerry Flynn /e.g. Rendering in MS/ probably it is enough, but if not , then I call to my friends as "stricken " of Microstation as me, and finally came time to write this question on Forum ,
/I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius/
as I said old school boy :-)
regards
Karol