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NOTE You can also copy materials between the folders in the left pane by either dragging and dropping them,
or using the Copy and Paste options on the shortcut menu.
To manage palette materials
➤ Right-click a material in the right pane of the Materials tab (the palette).
■ Click Copy to copy the material to the clipboard. Right-click an empty space in the palette and click
Paste to paste a copy of the material with the same name suffixed with the next number in the list. This
process is useful if you want to test small tweaks to a material.
■ Click Delete on the shortcut menu to delete the material from the palette. This will also remove the
material from all items in the scene.
■ Click Regenerate Image to regenerate the thumbnail of the material in the palette with the current
attributes.
■ Click Rename to rename the material. You can also select the material and press F2 to rename it.
■ Click Edit, or double-click a material to open the Material Editor dialog box, allowing you to edit its
parameters. See “Edit Presenter Materials” on page 357 for more information.
■ Depending on whether items are selected in the scene and whether the material has been assigned to
any items, there will also be a couple of Apply and Remove items on the shortcut menu. See “
Apply and
Remove Presenter Materials
” on page 353 for more details.
■ Click Select All Instances to select the items in the scene which have this particular material assigned to
them.
■ Click Load Palette to load a previously saved palette of materials into the current scene. This will delete
any materials currently in the palette. The standard File Open dialog box opens, allowing you to browse
to an NWP file.
■ Click Append Palette to load a palette from an NWP file, while keeping all the existing materials in the
current palette. Any materials that are duplicated will be renamed with the NWP file as an extension.
■ Click Merge Palette to merge a palette from an NWP file into the current scene. This is like appending,
but instead of adding and renaming any duplicate materials, merging will overwrite existing materials
of the same name.
■ Click Save Palette As to save your current palette of materials into a Autodesk Navisworks Palette NWP
file. If you save the current scene using the usual Save method into an NWF or NWD file, the palette
will be saved too, but the independent NWP file is useful if you want to transfer materials you’ve made
in one scene into other scenes.
NOTE If you publish an NWD file using Output tab ➤ Publish panel ➤ NWD, a _Presenter_Maps folder
will be created along with the NWD file. This folder will contain any materials that are not contained in Presenter
Runtime, which is used by both Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2011 and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011,
to view materials.
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