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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle">Materials in Part Palette</div>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You can use this palette to maintain your own repository of customized sets of materials.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Getting Started</div>
      <p class="para_division">To start your material collection, copy materials from the System Materials and Materials Library Navigator to the working palette.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Materials Are Saved With Part</div>
      <p class="para_division">This palette contains materials that reside in the working part. It is not only an area for setting up customized materials, independent of the part, like other user palettes. The system saves the materials in this palette with the part, whether you have applied them to objects or not.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Operations in this Palette</div>
      <div class="title_division">Adding and Deleting Materials</div>
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            <p class="para_item">You can add or delete materials from this palette; the system dynamically updates the image representations. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">When you delete a material that has been applied to the model, the system removes the material and redisplays the face or solid from which it was removed.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Editing Materials</div>
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            <p class="para_item">You can edit any material that you place in the working palette.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When you edit a material in this palette, the system updates the material's thumbnail. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">When you edit a material, you can modify the existing material or create a new one using Copy, Paste, or New. </p>
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      <div class="title_division">Applying Materials</div>
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            <p class="para_item">Apply a material from this palette directly to specific faces and bodies.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Opening a Part</div>
      <div class="title_division">New Parts</div>
      <p class="para_division">When you open a new part, this palette does not contain any materials.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Legacy Parts</div>
      <p class="para_division">When you open a legacy part, you immediately have access to the materials that reside in the part, in addition to the System Materials and Materials Library Navigator.</p>
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