Improvements to PHYSICAL MATERIAL / APPEARANCE UI...

[kdeuler]

I'd like to suggest some improvements to the Physical Material and Appearance selection dialog...

1) Combine the Physical Material and Appearance dialogs. Below graphic is a sample kludged from the current dialogs.

2) New Selected item area (green square) shows the current properties of the selected item. These items can be dragged to non-selected drawing components/bodies/surfaces.

3) Addition of the Appearance options (blue square) that are available for the selected material (red square). By default, the items shown in the green square are pre-selected in the blue and red squares.

• 3a: Dragging an item from the Appearance column to another object in the drawing will automatically also apply the "parent" physical material.
• 3b: Dragging an item from the Physical Material column to another object in the drawing will prompt the user to select an available appearance for the material.

Note: Not incorporated into this new dialog is the existing appearance option:

• Apply to
•   Bodies/Components
•    Faces 

[colin.smith]

Added to backlog.