As you work with Creo Elements/Direct Rendering, you will change the materials, lights, and scenes to suit your purpose. By saving all the rendering settings you have defined in an archive you can easily apply them to another model. You can also export an archive so that it can be used elsewhere, and you can load an existing archive. The file extension for archives is .lwa.
Use the default archives, User-defined Materials and User-defined World archives, or create your own. In all of them, you can create new sub-directories.
• In the User-defined Materials archive, you can add only materials and decals.
• In the User-defined World archive, you can add only backgrounds, foregrounds, lights, and light studios.
• In your own archives, you can add any of the rendering features.
To add to an archive,
1. Right-click the archive.
2. Click New Archive in the drop-down menu.
3. Click the category from which you wish to add an element.
4. If you choose to add a decal, the New Decal menu and the File Browser will appear. Select a file in the file browser and complete the New Decal menu as described in
Using decals.
5. Double-click the desired entry from the category menu that appears. The new entry appears in the archive browser.
To create a new archive, load a saved archive, or import an archive from a third party,
1. Right-click in empty space in the rendering browser.
2. Click New Archive, Load Archive, or Import Archive from the drop-down menu.
If you load an archive,
• The archive will not be available if Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and the Rendering module is restarted.
• You cannot edit the archive due to its temporary setup.
• The archive is loaded once.
If you import an archive,
• The archive is copied to the user customization directory (User Archive Directory) in the SDUSERCUSTOMIZEDIR.
• The archive will be reloaded if Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and the Rendering module is restarted.
• You can edit the content of the archive.
To export an archive,
1. Right-click the archive.
2. Click Export Archive from the drop-down list.
3. Enter a File name.
4. Click Save.
To export material characteristics of your current model,
1. Right-click in empty space in the rendering browser.
2. Click Export Model Materials from the drop-down menu.
3. In the Save dialog, select the elements of the model you wish to save or click All Objects.
