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Selection Tree Window
The Selection Tree is a dockable window, which displays a variety of
hierarchical views of the structure of the model, as defined by the CAD
application in which the model was created.
Autodesk Navisworks uses this hierarchical structure to identify object-specific
paths (from the file name down to a particular object).
By default there are four tabs:
■ Standard. Displays the default tree hierarchy, including all instancing.
■ Compact. Displays a simplified version of the hierarchy on the Standard
tab, omitting various items. You can customize the level of complexity of
this tree in the Options Editor.
■ Properties. Displays the hierarchy based on the items' properties. This
enables simple manual searching of the model by item property.
■ Sets. Displays a list of selection and search sets. If no selection and search
sets have been created, this tab is not shown.
Naming of items reflects the names from the original CAD application,
wherever possible. You can copy and paste names from the Selection Tree.
To do this, right-click an item in the Selection Tree, and click Copy Name
on the context menu. Alternatively, you can click an item in the Selection
Tree, and press CTRL + C. The name is now copied to the clipboard.
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