2012
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012
- What Is New in This Release?
- How to Get Assistance
- Installation
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Prepare for Installation
- Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012
- Move to Autodesk Navisworks from a Previous Release
- Install Autodesk Navisworks for Multiple Users
- Quick Start to Network Administration and Deployment
- Set Up a Deployment
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site Folder?
- How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a site and project basis?
- How do I change which exporter plugins are installed?
- How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing it?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- Deployment Issues
- Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a deployment?
- Where should deployments be located?
- Where can I check if service packs are available for my software?
- How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit deployments?
- What are information channels?
- What are additional deployment configuration options?
- Licensing Issues
- Networking Issues
- Where do I find my server name?
- If I choose to create a log file, what kind of information does the log file contain?
- What is an administrative image (MSI) file?
- What is the impact of selecting all products to be included in the administrative image?
- How should I configure a network license server for a firewall
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- General Installation Issues
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Quick Start
- Start and Quit Autodesk Navisworks
- Automatically Save and Recover Autodesk Navisworks Files
- Command Line Options
- The User Interface
- Navigation with the Wheel Button
- Autodesk Navisworks Options
- Location Options
- Graphics System
- Display Units
- Profiles
- Search Directories
- Gizmos
- Work with Files
- Native File Formats
- Compatible CAD Applications
- Use File Readers
- 3DS File Reader
- ASCII Laser Scan File Reader
- Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader
- CIS/2 File Reader
- DWG/DXF File Reader
- DWF/DWFx File Reader
- DGN File Reader
- Faro Scan File Reader
- FBX File Reader
- IFC File Reader
- IGES File Reader
- Inventor File Reader
- JTOpen File Reader
- Leica Scan File Reader
- MAN File Reader
- Parasolid File Reader
- PDS File Reader
- Pro/ENGINEER File Reader
- Riegl Scan File Reader
- RVM File Reader
- SAT File Reader
- SketchUp SKP File Reader
- STEP File Reader
- STL File Reader
- VRML File Reader
- Z+F Scan File Reader
- Use File Exporters
- Manage Files
- View Scene Statistics
- Explore Your Model
- Control Model Appearance and Render Quality
- Review Your Model
- Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes
- Record and Play Animations
- Work Within a Team
- Share Data
- Animate Objects
- Create Photorealistic Visualizations
- Simulate Construction Scheduling
- Use the Autodesk Vault Add-In
- Reference
- Animation Export Dialog Box
- Appearance Profiler Dialog Box
- Background Settings Dialog Box
- Collision Dialog Box
- Convert Object Properties Dialog Box
- Culling Options Dialog Box
- Customize Dialog Box
- Default Collision Dialog Box
- Edit Key Frame Dialog Box
- Edit Link Dialog Box
- Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box
- Export Rendered Image Dialog Box
- File Options Dialog Box
- Units and Transform Dialog Box
- Image Export Dialog Box
- InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box
- New Link Dialog Box
- Options Editor Dialog Box
- Publish Dialog Box
- Piranesi EPix Dialog Box
- QTVR Object Movie Settings Dialog Box
- Section Plane Settings Dialog Box
- Glossary
- Index
If you drag the material from an archive, it will appear in the palette where
it can be edited and saved with the scene, if necessary.
Presenter uses Autodesk Navisworks selection resolution to decide which
items to apply the material to when dragging from an archive or palette into
the main view. When hovering over any item in the main view, the proposed
selection will change into the selection color (blue by default). When you
drop the material onto the current selection, it will be applied to all the items
selected. If you drop the material onto an item that is not currently selected,
it will be applied to just that item. See
Set Selection Resolution (page 345) for
more information on selection resolution.
You can also apply materials to items by selecting the items in the Selection
Tree or Scene View, right-clicking the material in the palette, and clicking
Apply to Selected Items.
Rules can also be used to apply materials to items automatically based on their
layer or color or selection set names, for example. See Use Presenter Rules
(page 596) for more information on this.
You can remove materials assigned to geometry items, either from the
Presenter window, or directly in the Scene View or Selection Tree.
Inheritance
Layers can have colors, just as geometry can. If a layer has a material, all its
children in the Selection Tree inherit this material, until one of the children
is assigned its own material, at which point, all its children in the Selection
Tree inherit this material, and so on.
You can drag and drop materials onto layers. Only the layer picks up the
material, and although its children inherit the material, they do not have it
explicitly assigned to them.
Therefore, right-clicking such a child will not allow you to remove the material
because one was not explicitly assigned in the first place.
However, if you use a rule to assign a material to a certain color, then all
objects in the scene will get this material explicitly assigned to them, including
parent layers and child objects. If, with a selection resolution of something
like Geometry (which is more specific than a resolution of Layer), you
right-click a child object, and click Remove Materials on the shortcut menu,
then the material will be removed from the child object, but not from the
parent layer and there won’t be any apparent difference.
To remove the material, you will, therefore, have to remove it from the parent
object; in the above situation this would be the layer.
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