Example of Active Custom Folders
This example shows how to use Active
custom folders to change the appearances for your model without
reassigning appearances.
Create three folders named red, blue, and green. In each of these folders
is an appearance named cover, switch, and buttons. The appearance properties
of cover, switch, and buttons have been changed in each folder to display
the model in red, blue, or green. Using Active
custom folders, you can render your model in red, blue, or green
by switching the active folder.
To switch appearances with the Active custom folders
list:
Assign appearances to your model in the folder
named red. Be sure to click Link appearance
in the Appearances PropertyManager,
Color/Image
tab. The appearance must be linked to a file so the software
loads the appearance properties from the file.
Render the model and notice it appears in red.
Save the part.
Click PhotoWorks,
Options, File
Locations.
Under Active
folders, click Add and
browse to the folder named blue that contains appearance files (*.p2m) with the same name as the assigned
appearances in the folder named red.
Click Apply
and click Yes to the message that
appears to reload the model with the new appearances.
Close the Options
dialog box.
Render the model and notice it appears in blue.
Back
to File Locations