Autodesk 507B1-90A211-1301 User Guide - Page 318

To manage palette materials 1 Right-click a material in the right-hand pane of the Materials tab (the palette). 2 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. 3 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. 4 Click Rename to rename the material. You can also select the material and press F2 to rename it. 5 Click Regenerate Image to regenerate the thumbnail of the material in the palette with the current attributes. 6 Click Select all instances to select the items in the scene which have this particular material assigned to them. 7 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 303 for more details. 8 Click Clear Palette to delete all the materials from the palette and also from all items in the scene. 9 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 will appear, allowing you to browse to an NWP file. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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 File ➤ 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 the File ➤ Publish command 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 Manage 2010 and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010, to view materials. 13 Click Edit, or simply double-click a material to open the Material Editor dialog box, allowing you to edit its parameters. See "Edit Presenter Materials" on page 306 for more information. Edit Presenter Materials Installed archive materials cannot be edited whilst 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 will appear, which will vary for different types of material. You can't add or remove parameters on a material - 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 for the Breeze Block procedural texture is shown below and this will be used as an example of how to edit a material. 306 | Chapter 14 Create Photorealistic Visualizations