Mirae WAVE allows you speed up your work by saving the list of meteorological data layers and the current 3-D image properties in **Rendering Pane** into a layer profile. You can later open and load all the saved layer profile onto your new 3-D images.
### Saving layer profile
1. In the **Menu Bar**, choose *Layer* menu category. In the *Layer Profile* panel, click the *Save* button.
![](img/5-3-save.png)
(The alternative way is to click the *Save* button on the control bar of the **Layer Pane**).
1. In the *Save Layer Profile* dialog box, enter the name of the layer profile, then select the layer and 3-D image's properties you want to save.
![](img/5-3-save-dialog.png)
1. You can either click the *Save* button to save the layer profile of click the *Export to* button to save the selected layer profile to a specified file (*.gvl.xml).
### Opening layer profile
1. In the **Menu Bar**, choose *Layer* menu category. In the *Layer Profile* panel, click the *Open* button.
![](img/5-3-open.png)
(The alternative way is to click the *Open* button on the control bar of the **Layer Pane**).
1. In the *Load Layer Profile* dialog box, select the saved layer profile or click *Import from file* button to import from , then click the *Load* button.
![](img/5-3-open-dialog.png)
Note that you need to open the corresponding dataset to load the layer profile. You can check the list of required datasets in the *Required Dataset List* panel.