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To view selected items
➤ Click View Selected on the Navigation Tools toolbar.
Menu: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ View Selected
Shortcut menu: Scene ➤ View Selected
Focus
You can put the Scene View into focus mode until the next click.
When you are in focus mode, clicking on an item swivels the camera so that the point clicked is in the center
of the view. This point becomes the focal point for examine, orbit, and turntable
navigation modes.
To focus
➤ Click Focus
on the Navigation Tools toolbar.
Menu: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ Focus
Shortcut menu: Scene ➤ Focus
Hold
When you navigate around a model in Autodesk 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.
To hold and release objects
1 Select the objects you want to hold either in the Scene Area or in the Selection Tree.
2 Click Hold on the Navigation Tools toolbar.
The selected objects are now held and will move with you through the model when you use navigation
modes, such as walk, pan and so on.
3 To release the held objects, click Hold
on the Navigation Tools toolbar again.
4 If you want to reset the objects to their original position, click Edit ➤ Reset All ➤ Reset Transforms.
Menu: Viewpoint ➤ Navigation Tools ➤ Hold
Control the Realism of Your Navigation
Gravity
NOTE This function only works in connection with collision.
Where collision gives you mass, gravity gives you weight. As such, you (as the collision volume) will be pulled
downwards whilst walking through the scene.
NOTE Gravity can only be used in walk navigation mode, and with the Walk tool for SteeringWheels.
This allows you to walk down stairs, for example, or follow terrain.
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