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Override Material Select this check box to save material override information with the viewpoint. When you
use a viewpoint again, the material overrides set when the viewpoint was saved are reapplied.
NOTE Saving the state information with each viewpoint requires a relatively large amount of memory.
Collision
Settings Opens the
Collision dialog box.
Options Editor
Use the Options Editor to adjust program settings for Autodesk Navisworks sessions.
The settings that you set up in the Options Editor are persistent across all Autodesk Navisworks sessions. You
also share the modified settings with other members of your team.
The options are presented in a hierarchical tree structure. Clicking
expands the nodes, clicking collapses
the nodes.
Menu: Tools ➤ Global Options
Buttons
Export Displays the Select Options to Export dialog box, where you can select the global options you want to
export (or ‘serialize’). If an option cannot be exported, it is grayed out.
Import Displays the Open dialog box, where you can browse to the file with the required global option settings.
OK Saves the changes, and closes the Options Editor.
Cancel Discards the changes, and closes the Options Editor.
Help Displays the context-sensitive help.
General Node
Use the settings in this node to adjust the buffer size, file locations, number of recent file shortcuts you want
Autodesk Navisworks to store, and the auto-save options.
TIP If you want to restore the default values, click the Defaults button.
Undo Page
Use the settings on this page to adjust the buffer size.
Buffer Size (kB) Specifies the amount of space Autodesk Navisworks allocates for saving undo/redo actions.
Locations Page
Use the options on this page to share global Autodesk Navisworks settings, workspaces, datatools, avatars, Clash
Detective rules, Presenter archives, custom Clash Detective tests, object animation scripts, and so on, with other
users.
The settings can be shared across an entire project site, or across a specific project group depending on the
required level of granularity.
When you run Autodesk Navisworks for the first time, the settings are picked up from the installation directory.
Subsequently, Autodesk Navisworks examines the current user profile and the all users profile on the local
machine, and then checks the settings in the Project Directory and the Site Directory. The files in the Project
Directory take precedence.
Project Directory Click
to open the Browse for Folder dialog box, and locate the directory that contains
the Autodesk Navisworks settings specific to a project group.
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