User`s guide

6 Using the 3D World Editor

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Approach Procedure

Select Nodes > Add.

Select appropriate submenus to add the node that

you want.

Use a context menu for a

node

In the tree structure pane, right-click the parent

node for the object that you want to add.

Select the Add Node menu, and then select

appropriate submenus to add the node that you want.

Insert an object from a

library

For Material, Texture, and children nodes, select the

Insert From menu option (from either the Nodes menu

or from the context menu for a node).

For information about library objects, see “3D World

Editor Library” on page 6-24.

Add an inlined VRML file For a ROOT or children node, from the Nodes menu or

the context menu for the node, select the Inline VRML

File menu item.

The node that you add gets added to different locations in the hierarchy, depending on

the node that you select to begin the process of adding a node.

Selected Node Location of Added Node

ROOT At the bottom of the hierarchy

Node at the next level down from the

ROOT node (for example, a Transform

node).

Above the selected node

A children node Under the children node (as a child node

of the selected node)

Copy and Paste a Node

You can copy a node below a top-level Transform node and paste that copied node to be

a child of another node, including the ROOT node.

You can paste the copied node as either an explicit text copy (Paste) or as a referenced

copy (Paste As Reference).