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To customize appearance of standard links
1 Click the application button
➤ Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, expand the Links node, and click the Standard Categories
option.
3 On the Standard Categories page, use the Icon Type box to specify how you want a link to be drawn for
each of the available categories. You can choose between an icon and text.
By default, label links are shown as text, and the rest of the link categories are shown as icons.
4 Click OK.
To customize appearance of user-defined links
1 Click the application button ➤ Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, expand the Links node, and click the User-Defined
Categories option.
3 On the User-Defined Categories page, use the Icon Type box to specify how you want a link to be drawn
for each of the available categories. You can choose between an icon and text. By default, links with
user-defined categories are shown as icons.
NOTE If no user-defined categories have been added, this page is empty.
4 Click OK.
Quick Reference
The table below shows the icons that can be used to represent different link categories in the Scene View.
DescriptionIcon
Represents links that have hyperlink, label,
or any user-defined category (and points
to a web address).
Represents links that have hyperlink, label,
or any user-defined category (and points
to an external file).
Represents links with viewpoints category
(perspective camera mode).
Represents links with viewpoints category
(orthographic camera mode).
Represents links with tags category.
Follow Links
Links are an extremely useful review tool to allow you to access non-graphical information through the graphical
interface of Autodesk Navisworks.
The links converted from the native CAD files, and the links added by Autodesk Navisworks users are treated as
object properties. This means, you can examine them in the Properties window.
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