Managing Materials
The palette is where you edit and manage your materials for your scene. Materials are taken from the archives into the palette where they are edited. You can then save the palette into a JetStream Palette file (.nwp) for use in other scenes too.
Right click on a material in the right hand pane of the Materials tab (the palette).
Click Delete to delete the material from the palette. This will also remove the material from all items in the scene.
Click Copy to copy the material to the clipboard. Right click on an empty space in the palette and choose Paste to paste a copy of the material with a 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 Rename to rename the material. You can also select the material and press F2 to rename it.
Click Regenerate Image to regenerate the thumbnail of the material in the palette with the current attributes.
Click Select all instances to select the items in the scene which have this particular material assigned to them.
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 and for more details on these.
Click Clear Palette to delete all the materials from the palette and also from all items in the scene.
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 will appear, 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 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 (only available if you have a valid JetStream Publisher license) 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 JetStream Roamer and NavisWorks Freedom, to view materials.
Click Edit... or simply double click on a material to open the material editor dialog, allowing you to edit its parameters. See for more information on this.