Civil 3D Surfaces and Navisworks

Navisworks does not appear to recognize materials applied to Civil 3D surfaces, either applied as a mask or in Surface Properties.

 

To apply materials to a surface one needs to utilize Presenter to assign the material within Navisworks. If Presenter isn’t on go here to turn it on:

Then drag the material you want from presenter onto the Civil 3D object.

While it doesn’t look any better from this view, it does now have a material of Large Gravel assigned to it. If you want different materials applied to different areas you have to break up the surface into different surfaces based on what you want the material to be. Not a fun prospect in my opinion