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Chapter 13. Selecting Items
With large models it is potentially a very time-consuming process to select items of interest. NavisWorks
makes this a much simpler task by providing a range of functions for quickly selecting items both
interactively and by searching the model manually and automatically. The main groups of functionality
concerned with selecting items are:
• The selection tree
• Interactive selection
• Selection sets
Also connected with selecting items is finding items, which is covered in Chapter 14, Finding .
In NavisWorks there is the concept of an active selection set (the currently selected items, or the current
selection) and saved selections sets. Selecting and finding items makes them part of the current
selection, so you can hide them or override their colors. At any time, the current selection can be saved
and named for retrieval in later sessions.
Below is shown the Selection Tools toolbar and the selection modes available:
Select
Select Box
In addition to the selection modes, you can also use three editing options on the Selection Tools toolbar.
See Chapter 15, Editing for more information on the editing tools.
Selection Trees
The selection tree is a tabbed control bar 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.
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