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Chapter 8. Selecting Items
With large models it is potentially a very time-consuming process to select items of interest. NavisWorks
makes this a much simpler task by providing a range of functions for quickly selecting items both
interactively and by searching the model manually and automatically. The main groups of functionality
concerned with selecting items are:
• The selection tree
• Interactive selection
In NavisWorks there is the concept of an active selection set (the currently selected items, or the current
selection) and saved selections sets. You cannot save any selection or search sets yourself, but you can
use the selection or search sets saved in the model.
Below is shown the Selection Tools toolbar and the selection modes available:
Select
In addition to the selection modes, you can also use three editing options on the Selection Tools toolbar.
See Chapter 10, Editing for more information on the editing tools.
Selection Trees
The selection tree is a tabbed control bar which displays a variety of hierarchical views of the structure of
the model, as defined by the CAD application in which the model was created.
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