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effect and render style, giving you quicker access.
Additional .lwa archives can be downloaded from http:\\www.lightworks-user.com. Although materials,
lights, effects and render styles cannot be edited in archives, once dragged into the scene's palette, they
can be edited and saved with the scene in a NavisWorks .nwf file, or published as a NavisWorks .nwd file.
You can save your own edits to materials into an .nwp file - see “ Organizing and Managing Materials ” for
more information on how to do this. Also, there is a User archive, which allow you to save your own
edited materials, lights, effects and render styles, for use in other scenes.
The User Archive
The User archive is accessible from each of the Materials, Lighting, Effects and Rendering tabs. On
each of the tabs the archives are named My Materials, My Lighting, My Effects and My Render Styles,
respectively. The principles are the same for each and will all be referred to as User archive, for the
purposes of this guide.
Managing the user archive
1. To save a material, light, effect or render style to the user archive for use in other scenes, simply
drag that item from the scene's palette (right hand pane) onto the respective User archive.
2. To create a new sub-folder in the User archive, right-click the archive and click New Directory on the
shortcut menu. You can rename this new folder by right-clicking it and choosing Rename from that
shortcut menu. You can make as many nested sub-folders as you wish in the User archive.
3. To save the User archive to disk, right-click it and click Save Archives on the shortcut menu. This
will save any modified archives. You will also be prompted to save any modified archives when you
close NavisWorks.
4. To remove a material, light, effect or render style from the respective User archive, right-click the
item to be removed, then click Delete on the shortcut menu.
5. To remove a sub-folder you've created from the respective User archive, right-click the folder to be
removed, then click Delete on the shortcut menu.
Note:
You cannot delete the default User archive.
Additional Archives
Archives can be added within each of the Materials, Lighting, Effects and Rendering tabs. The
principles are the same for each.
Adding archives
1. To download an archive from the LightWorks-User web site, right-click any archive (in the left hand
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