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Find Objects
You can run simple manual searches of the model by item property. To do this:
■ On the Selection Tree, click the Properties tab, and click the saved property search in the list.
The corresponding model geometry is selected in the Scene Area.
Use Sets of Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks, you cannot save any selection or search sets yourself, but you can use the selection or
search sets saved in the model.
Selection sets store a group of items for later retrieval. There is no intelligence behind this set - if the model
changes at all, the same items will be selected (assuming they are still available in the model) when recalling the
selection set.
Search sets work in a similar way, except that they save search criteria instead of the results of a selection. So, if
there are any search sets saved in the model, then you use them in Autodesk Navisworks to run the search and
select the resulting objects.
Selection and search sets can be named and contain comments. They can also be highlighted with icons in the
main navigation window, so that when you click on one, the selection set is restored to the active set and all
the items within it are re-selected.
To reselect items from a selection or search set
1 Open the Selection Tree window, and click the Sets tab.
2 Click the saved selection or search set from the list.
On recalling a selection set, all the items that were selected when the set was saved are re-selected into the
current selection.
On recalling a search set, the search that was saved into the set is re-run and any items matching the
specification are selected into the current selection.
Object Properties
Properties Window
The Properties window is a floating window, which has a dedicated tab for each property category associated
with the currently selected object.
Internal file properties, such as transform and geometry properties, are not shown by default. The Options Editor
enables you to switch this on.
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