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Although materials, lights, effects, and render styles cannot be edited in
archives, once dragged into the scenes palette, they can be edited and saved
with the scene in an NWF file, or published as an NWD file.
You can save your own edits to materials into an NWP file format. See
Organize
and Manage Materials
(page 555) for more information on how to do this.
The User Archives
The user archives allow you to save your own edited materials, lights, effects,
and render styles for use in other scenes.
The User archives are 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.
To manage user archives
To save a material, light, effect, or render style to a user archive for use in
other scenes, in the right pane, drag that item from the scenes palette
onto the respective user archive.
To create a new subfolder in a 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 clicking Rename on the shortcut menu.
You can add as many nested subfolders as you want.
To save a user archive to disk, right-click it, and click Save Archives on
the shortcut menu. This saves any modified archives.
NOTE You will also be prompted to save any modified archives when you
close Autodesk Navisworks.
To remove a material, light, effect, or render style from the respective user
archive, right-click the item to be removed, and click Delete on the
shortcut menu.
To remove a subfolder youve created from the respective user archive,
right-click the folder to be removed, and click Delete on the shortcut
menu.
NOTE You cannot delete any default user archive folders.
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