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To reveal all hidden objects
■ Click Home tab ➤ Visibility panel ➤ Unhide All drop-down ➤ Unhide All .
Shortcut menu: Scene ➤ Reset All ➤ Unhide All
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 View.
Quick Find
To locate and select the objects quickly, use the Quick Find feature.
To quickly find items
1 Click Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel.
2 In the Quick Find text box, type in the string to search for in all item’s properties. This can be a word or a
few words. The search is not case-sensitive.
3 Click Quick Find
. Autodesk Navisworks finds and selects the first item in the Selection Tree that matches
the entered text, selects it in the Scene View, and stops the search.
4 To find more items, click Quick Find
again. If there are any more items that match the entered text,
Autodesk Navisworks selects the next one in the Selection Tree, selects it in the Scene View, and stops the
search. Subsequent clicks find next instances.
Command entry: To open the Quick Find dialog box: CTRL + F. To Find Next: F3
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
Scene View, 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 select 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.
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