To Manage Palette Materials

To manage palette materials

1. Right-click a material in the right pane of the Materials tab (the palette).
   • 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.
   • Click Delete on the context menu to delete the material from the palette. This will also remove the material from all items in the scene.
   • Click Regenerate Image to regenerate the thumbnail of the material in the palette with the current attributes.
   • Click Rename to rename the material. You can also select the material and press F2 to rename it.
   • Click Edit, or double-click a material to open the Material Editor dialog box, allowing you to edit its parameters. See Edit Presenter Materials for more information.
   • 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 context menu. See Apply and Remove Presenter Materials for more details.
   • 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 Autodesk Navisworks Manage, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate, and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom, to view materials.
   • Click Clear Palette to delete all the materials from the palette and also from all items in the scene.