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To focus on an item
■ Click Item Tools tab ➤ Look At panel ➤ Focus on Item
.
Toolbar: Navigation bar ➤ Look tools ➤ Focus
Menu: Classic user interface: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ Focus
Shortcut menu: Scene ➤ Focus
Hold
When you navigate around a model in Autodesk Navisworks, it is possible to “pick up” or hold selected items
and move around with them in the model.
For example you may be viewing a plan for a factory and would like to see different configurations of machine
layouts.
To hold and release objects
1 Select the objects you want to hold either in the Scene View or in the Selection Tree.
2 Click Item Tools tab ➤ Hold panel ➤ Hold
.
The selected objects are now held and will move with you through the model when you use navigation
tools, such as Walk, Pan and so on.
3 To release the held objects, click Hold
on the ribbon again.
4 If you want to reset the objects to their original position, click Item Tools tab ➤ Transform panel ➤ Reset
Transform
.
Menu: Classic user interface: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ Hold
Control the Realism of Your Navigation
Gravity
NOTE This function only works in connection with collision.
Where collision gives you mass, gravity gives you weight. As such, you (as the collision volume) will be pulled
downwards whilst walking through the scene.
NOTE Gravity can only be used with the Walk navigation tool.
This allows you to walk down stairs, for example, or follow terrain.
To toggle gravity
■ When using the Walk tool, click Viewpoint tab ➤ Motion Settings panel ➤ Realism drop-down
➤
Gravity check box.
Menu: Classic user interface: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ Gravity
Command entry: CTRL + G
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