Introduction

As an application developer, you want the graphical representation of imported parts to match their appearance in the authoring software as closely as possible. Appearance can be specified on a per B-Rep face basis and furthermore, the particular path through the assembly hierarchy can impart parent/child overrides on visual appearance.

Exchange captures data about the appearance of objects coming from a variety of formats, each with different levels of available information.

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