Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1801

For example, a door that is assigned the "Hinged - Single - Full Lite" style is made up of five components in AutoCAD Architecture: the Frame, Panel, Stop, Glass, and Muntins. Each component has a material assigned to it. For instance, the default material assigned to the Panel component of this type of door is "finish carpentry.wood.mahogany." To change the Panel material in 3ds Max, you can select the Panel component and drag a new material to it from the Material Editor. Because the Panel material is part of the door's style, your new material automatically propagates to any other door in the scene that is assigned the "Hinged - Single - Full Lite" style. NOTE If you need to apply a material to individual objects, or object selections, rather than to all objects of the same style, you can use the command Propagate Materials To Instances on page 5328. For more information about working with materials and assigning materials to objects in 3ds Max, see Materials on page 5259. Styles and Interactive Selection and Navigation Architectural drawings range from simple sketches to highly complex floor plans, so finding different components of a drawing can be difficult. Style-based objects from AutoCAD Architecture all have styles associated with them. So if you link a drawing to 3ds Max, objects with styles will be associated with them both in AutoCAD Architecture and in 3ds Max. Furthermore, in 3ds Max, the name of the object will contain the AutoCAD Architecture object category name (Door, for example), style name (Double Hinged) and component name (Panel). You make most object and component selections in 3ds Max by selecting objects in the viewports. However, in complex models where objects and components may be spread across multiple layers or located in congested areas, style definitions help streamline the selection of reusable components in a drawing. Once objects and components are selected, you can also isolate them from the remainder of the model to work on them more efficiently. To select objects by style: The Select Similar command has the same function in 3ds Max as it does in AutoCAD Architecture. 1 In a scene imported or linked from AutoCAD Architecture, select an object that contains the style of interest. 7056 | Chapter 23 Managing Scenes and Projects