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■ Select Multiple Instances. Selects all instances (sometimes called insertions) of the currently selected geometry
group that occur in the model.
■ Select Same Name. Selects all items in the model that have the same name as the currently selected item.
■ Select Same Type. Selects all items in the model that have the same type as the currently selected item.
■ Select Same <Property>. Selects all items with the same property as the currently selected item. This property
can be any searchable property currently attached to the item, for example material or hyperlink.
NOTE Using the Select Same <Property> command works by comparing items' properties. If you have multiple
items selected when you perform a selection command of same name or type and so on, all the types, names and
properties of the items in the current selection are compared with all items’ properties in the scene. The items with
properties matching any properties of the currently selected items are selected.
Set Selection Resolution
When you click an item in the Scene View, Autodesk Navisworks doesn't know what level of item to start selecting
at - do you mean the whole model, or the layer, or the instance, or group, or just the geometry? The default
selection resolution specifies a starting point for the object path in the Selection Tree so that Autodesk Navisworks
can locate and select the item.
You can customize the default selection resolution in the Options Editor. Or you can use a quicker way, by
right-clicking any item in the Selection Tree and clicking Set Selection Resolution to X, where X is one of the
available selection resolutions.
If you find you have selected the wrong level of item, you can interactively cycle through the selection resolution,
without having to go to the Options Editor or the Selection Tree. You can do this by holding down the SHIFT
key when clicking an item. This selects an item one level more specific each time you click the item until the
resolution gets to "geometry", at which point it reverts back to "model". Clicking on a different item reverts the
selection resolution back to default (as set in the Options Editor).
To set the default selection resolution
1 Click Tools ➤ Global Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, and click the Selection option.
3 On the Selection page, select the required starting point for the object path in the Resolution box.
4 Click OK.
Quick Reference
The available options for selection resolution are as follows:
■ Model. Makes the object path start at the model node; as a result, all objects in the model are selected.
■ Layer. Makes the object path start at the layer node; as a result all objects within a layer are selected.
■ First Object. Makes the object path start at the highest level of objects below the layer node, if applicable.
■ Last Object. Makes the object path start at the lowest level of objects in the Selection Tree. Autodesk Navisworks
looks for composite objects first, and if none are found, the geometry level is used instead. This is the default
option.
■ Last Unique. Makes the object path start at the first unique level of objects (not multiple-instanced) in the
Selection Tree.
■ Geometry. Makes the object path start from the geometry level in the Selection Tree.
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