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Chapter 27. Overview of Presenter
Presenter enables a great level of realism to be added to a design model by applying textures and
materials, backgrounds, lighting and effects.
Working with the Presenter Window
The Presenter window is used to set up materials and lights in your scene and render it with more realism
and effects. You can also use it to edit pre-defined materials and apply them to items in the scene, add
lights to the scene and set up rules for applying the materials to other files in the same project set up with
the same parameters. You can define and apply your materials and lights to a model and save the
settings into a NavisWorks .nwf file so that as the model is updated, the materials and lights remain the
same. Materials can also be brought through from CAD applications via the .3DS, .dwg and .dgn file
formats, or by exporting from 3D Studio Viz or Max. See Chapter 10, Converting Files for more details on
this.
By default, the Presenter window floats in the main NavisWorks window. Like all other floating windows,
Presenter window is dockable and resizable, and will automatically lock to specific locations near to
where it is moved. You can prevent it from docking while you drag it, by holding down Ctrl.
Note:
You can quickly dock and undock any floating window by double-clicking the window's control
bar.
To open the Presenter window, select Presenter from the Tools menu.
The Presenter window contains the following tabs:
Material - includes a variety of materials, which can be selected and applied to individual or groups of
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