How can I get more appearances for solidworks?

how can i get more appearances for solidworks?
i mean renderings materials...
thanks

7 Answers

Hussam, there's a "secret" location of materials that comes with your SW install. Just point the program to this folder....

C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\data\Images\textures

David Thomas supplied some additional materials.
Materials for SolidWorks v1

car - Adan Isais has a quick explanation of material files and there locations at this link:

http://grabcad.com/questions/how-can-i-get-more-appearances-for-photoview

how did you add that folder to appearance library?

Thanks :) Didn't know that.

I have uploaded a collection of materials and appearances that I've gathered and made myself.

Solidworks Material and Appearance Library

certain type's of images have to be copied into correct location