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■ 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 2012 and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2012, to view materials.
■ Click Clear Palette to delete all the materials from the palette and
also from all items in the scene.
Edit Presenter Materials
Installed archive materials cannot be edited while they are in the archives,
but you can edit materials in the scene’s palette. Edited materials will be saved
with the Autodesk Navisworks model in an NWD or NWF file, or in an NWP
palette file, or they can be added to your user archive, called My Materials.
To edit a material, double-click it in the palette, or right-click it and click Edit
on the shortcut menu. The Material Editor dialog box opens, which will
vary for different types of material. You can’t add or remove parameters on a
material. You can merely edit those existing. So it is important to use the right
type of material template for the material you want to edit. The dialog box
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