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lines procedurally drawn on it in red, but if the object is an ACIS solid, the mortar lines, which are procedural hatches, are lost in 3ds Max When an ACIS object's materials are shown as a Multi/Sub-Object material in the Material Editor, each material name appears in the Material/Map Browser, for example, Default wall or Basic Wall: Generic - 12" Masonry. Polymesh Polymesh DWGs import as polymesh geometry in 3ds Max. Unlike ACIS solids, you can modify and edit any face of a polymesh object. Polymesh Objects and Materials When you import a polymesh DWG file, 3ds Max considers each polymesh face as a separate entity, with one material permitted per entity, which allows it to contain multiple materials. You can apply a bitmap material to the different faces of polymesh geometry, unlike ACIS solids, where you would need to use a Multi/Sub-Object material to create the same effect. For example, you can select the outside face of wall and apply a brick bitmap material and also apply a diffuse material on the inside wall to simulate white paint. When you import a polymesh DWG file, every material used in the scene appears in the Material Editor as a separate material, where you can edit it. When the Material Editor shows a polymesh object's materials, each material name appears in the Material/Map Browser, for example, Default wall or Basic Wall: Generic - 12" Masonry. Procedures To import a DWG or DXF file: 1 Choose File menu > Import. 2 Choose AutoCAD Drawing (*.DWG, *.DXF) in the Files of Type list. 3 Specify the file to import and click Open. 4 Set options in the AutoCAD DWG/DXF Import Options dialog. 5 Click OK to perform the import. 7186 | Chapter 23 Managing Scenes and Projects