# Option to choose default material

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/option-to-choose-default-material/35654>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [December 19, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/option-to-choose-default-material/35654 "2024-12-19T09:50:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![C.Gerrits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@C.Gerrits](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/C.Gerrits)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/option-to-choose-default-material/35654/1 "2024-12-19T09:50:12Z")

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A simple feature request I _think_,

every time I import a model from solidworks, my materials get set to the “Default Material” which makes sense and since I’m using the “x\_t” format my colors do come along. However, we mainly make things of 1 or 2 material types, being glass and powdercoated metal, for which I’d love to be able to set the default to the latter. It’d save me quite a bit of very repetitive menu hopping, which after processing 5 or 6 separate models can really start to become drag. Hope this is as easy to implement as I think it is!

Thanks for reading this!