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Chapter 15. Editing
As NavisWorks is a design review tool, editing is restricted to simple temporary "overrides" of items'
properties, so that they can always be reset to the state they were in when imported from the CAD file.
You can override an item's position by holding onto the item while navigating and then dropping it in a
new position, or move it by overriding it's transform. Also you can edit an item's color, transparency, and
hyperlinks. In addition, you can hide and reveal items and make them required and unrequired to control
their drop out during navigation. Finally, you can also edit a file's transform, or in other words, its origin
location, scale, rotation and so on, so that it fits within the scene when appending multiple models from
potentially different sources and CAD applications.
Most editing is done from the Edit menu, which includes the following items:
Undo
Redo
Select
Quick Find
Quick Find Next
Find Items
Find Comments
Hidden
Required
Unselected Hidden
Override Item
Reset Item
Reset All
File Units and Transform
The three main editing functionalities not available from the Edit menu are hyperlinks, holding items and
object manipulation.
Holding and releasing objects
When navigating around a model in NavisWorks it is possible to "pick up" or hold selected items and
move around with them in the model. For example you may be viewing a plan for a factory and would like
to see different configurations of machine layouts.
Holding and releasing items:
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