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               <p class="para_td">Overview</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You can use the Studio Showroom Environment to set up an environment that allows you to see how your model will look in various settings and at different angles. Use it when designing home, office, or any industrial product that requires aesthetic engineering.</p>
      <div class="title_division">The Studio Showroom Environment </div>
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            <p class="para_item">Supports the environment cube in both Studio rendering style and in High Quality Shading.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Provides dynamic cube editing. You can dynamically edit cube size, location, and orientation. It also allows you to try out different environment images and see the reflection of the environment on the model. Furthermore, it allows you to easily view and navigate the model within the environment. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">Provides several default environments (showroom, outdoor scene, etc.). This allows you to select a predefined environment. You can easily access the default environments from the Default Environment palette in the Resource Bar.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Showrooms provides an easy user interface allowing you to create and edit your own environment. You can assign a different TIFF file to each wall and dynamically view the result, such as the reflection of each wall on the model.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Provides an easy interface to create turntable viewing within the environment cube.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Supports easily turning the display of the environment cube on and off by clicking the Show Environment Cube icon on the Visualize Shape Toolbar. </p>
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      <p class="para_division">To enter the Studio Showroom Environment task environment:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click on the <b class="uiTerm">Showroom Environment</b> icon <img align="bottom" src="../graphic_library/icons/toolbars/shape_studio/visualize_shape/showroom_environment.gif" border="0">on the<b class="uiTerm"> Visualize Shape</b> toolbar, or
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            <p class="para_item">Select <b class="uiTerm">View</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Visualization</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Showroom Environment</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Specifying an Environment Variable</div>
      <p class="para_division">The system stores the environment files that you create in a directory specified by the UGII_USER_SHOWROOM_DATA_DIR environment variable. We recommend that you define this environment variable and use its associated directory as a central storage for all User Showroom Environment files. NX searches this directory to resolve all part references to environment files. The directory must have full write permission.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">If you don't define a directory for showroom environment files, the system uses the UGII_TMP_DIR/user_showroom_data_dir directory to store all user showroom environment files.</p>
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