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Using parts for finishes

Using parts for finishes

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Using parts for finishes

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- [Instructor] There are lots of properties available for parts on the Properties palette when you select them. In this movie, I'd like to look at a slightly unorthodox use of parts. I want to leverage the fact that we can select parts and override their materials to use parts as a way of indicating finishes. Now, this could be used by interior designers or other designers or architects to indicate what finish an object will be, but to not have that be a permanent part of all the views. In other words, it's almost like adding another level of detail to the view. 'Cause when you consider coarse, medium and fine, it gives us the advantage of being able to turn on and off different amounts of detail depending on what scale we're viewing at. Parts kind of does the same thing when you consider parts visibility. So if we create some parts that we only want to see in certain views, then we just make sure that the other views have the Show Parts feature turned off. We have it set to Show…

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