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4 Click OK.
Menu: Classic user interface: Tools ➤ Global Options
Search Directories
Autodesk Navisworks searches for a variety of configuration files in subdirectories of three standard directories.
These files can be overridden on a per user, all users or per installation basis. The search directories are:
■ Application Data\Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011 within the current user profile. For example, C:\Documents
and Settings\user\Application Data\Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011 where user is the name of the current
user.
■ Application Data\Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011 within the all users default profile. For example,
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011.
■ Within the Navisworks install directory. For example, C:\Program Files\Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2011.
Two additional directories, Site and Project, may be used to share various configuration settings with other users.
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.
See also:
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Location Options on page 59
Gizmos
Autodesk Navisworks provides you with gizmo-based tools to interact with 3D objects. The following types of
gizmos are used:
■ Transform gizmos. Manipulate objects’ transforms (translation, rotation, and scale) globally (as if they’d been
changed in the original CAD model).
■ Animation gizmos. Manipulate objects’ transforms temporarily for animation purposes.
■ Sectioning gizmos. Manipulate section planes and section box.
Each gizmo displays three colored axes at the correct angles relevant to the current camera position. Gizmos act
like 3D objects in that the axis rotate with the viewpoint. However, they are overlaid over the top of the 3D
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