Can't append a mesh correctly?

I was following a video tutorial on how to append meshes from previous works into the project you’re ourrently working on, but I can’t get it right. It seems all I can manage to do is import the material, but not the mesh itself. And when I select an arbitrary object like a cube and I change the material datablock to the one I appended, the material changes but the mesh does not. However in the video, his mesh changes.

:frowning: help

you’re selecting OBJECT [not mesh] then the cube object [or whatever] when you append right?

No, I wasn’t! Thank you!

However I have a question now. If you append the mesh on purpose instead of the object, how do you use it?

You select another Mesh Object (not Curve or Armature etc) and you link that object to your appender Mesh from the ME: menu.

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