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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">To modify a visualization settings template:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Open a standard NX palette.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Place the cursor on a Visualization Settings Template and right-click.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b>. This displays the <b class="uiTerm">Visualization Template Generator</b> dialog.
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            <p class="para_item">Make modifications using the dialog.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">To enable and disable options, select or clear the check box beside them.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Enabling and disabling options allows you to determine what individual settings or subsets of settings will be extracted to the visualization settings template file when you create it.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">By disabling options, you can create a partial template. You may want only four or five settings in your template and leave the rest alone.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">To overwrite the current template, accept the default template name, or Create a new template containing the modifications by entering a new name.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click <b class="uiTerm">OK</b>. This saves the settings to a visualization settings template in the current palette.
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      <p class="para_topic">You can't add more information to what a template already contains. For example, if a template doesn't contain the color palette, you can't change a color in the color palette. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">To add more information, you can apply the template to another part, and then recreate the template from scratch. The new template contains the settings from the applied template in addition to the modifications you make.</p>
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