Create Custom Material in FreeCAD

This FreeCAD tutorial explains how to create custom material and use it in a project. FreeCAD has a powerful material system. The tutorial explores the material editor, explains physical and appearance properties of material and shows how to create a new material from scratch. The video also shows how to assign materials to objects and how to manage the appearance properties of objects in relation to materials. Management of custom materials is also demonstrated. The path where custom materials are saved on Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\VERSION FreeCAD version used in the video: 1.1 RC1 Thumbnail image by Jean-Pierre Pellissier from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/pellissierjp-785732/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=1180666 You can support creation of future tutorials of the FCB Lounge channel by donating through Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/fcblounge Donate to the FreeCAD project to support the development: https://wiki.freecad.org/Donate Follow FCB Lounge channel on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/fcblounge Follow FCB Lounge channel on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tomaspolak.bsky.social This video was created with the help of OBS: https://obsproject.com/ This video was created with the help of GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ This video was created with the help of KDEnlive: https://kdenlive.org/ Content: 0:00 Introduction and material editor 1:28 Physical and appearance material properties explained 2:42 Creating new custom material 4:15 Creating physical properties 6:55 Creating appearance properties 7:58 Saving the material 9:54 Applying material to an object 10:23 Changing material properties 11:25 Assigning appearance properties to obejcts 13:42 Management of custom materials 14:58 Conclusion #freecad #aec #opensource #openBIM #bim