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Chapter 18. Tools
The Tools menu in JetStream gives access to a series of useful tools, plugins and options. If you have
purchased the Presenter, Clash Detective or TimeLiner plugins, they will be available under this menu.
The Tools menu consists of:
• Clash Detective (see the Clash Detective user guide for more details)
• Presenter (see the Presenter user guide for more details)
• TimeLiner or TimeLiner Playback (see the TimeLiner user guide for more details)
• Compare
• Redline
• Hyperlinks
• Smart Tags
• Measure
• Animation
• Background Color
• File Options
• Global Options
All items on this menu are explained in other chapters, except for the Compare tool, which is described
below.
18.1. Comparing Models
The Compare tool becomes available when exactly two items are selected. These can be any types of
item, but the compare tool is most useful when comparing two versions of the same model. During the
comparison, JetStream will start at each item and recursively travel down each path, as seen in the
standard selection tree, comparing each item it comes across in terms of the criteria requested.
When the comparison has finished, you have the option of saving the differences as Selection Sets with
comments describing the differences in more detail.
Comparing two items
1. Select exactly two items in the scene (see Chapter 9, Selecting Items for more information on how to
do this).
2. Go to Tools, Compare
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