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important, especially if you choose to negate some statements. For example, "(A AND B) OR (C AND NOT D)".
When search conditions are evaluated, NOT is applied before AND, and AND is applied before OR.
To toggle the Find Items window
■ Click Find Items
on the Workspace toolbar.
Menu: View ➤ Control Bars ➤ Find Items
Command entry: SHIFT + F3
To find objects
1 Open the Find Items window.
2 On the Find Selection Tree, click the items where you want to start searching from. For example, if you
want to search the whole model, click the Standard tab, press and hold CTRL, and click all files that comprise
the model. If you want to limit your search to a selection set, click the Sets tab, and click the required set.
3 Define a search statement:
a Click the Category column, and select the property category name from the drop-down list, for example,
‘Item’.
b In the Property column, select the property name from the drop-down list, for example, ‘Material’.
c In the Condition column, select the condition operator, for example, ‘Contains’.
d In the Value column, type in the property value to search for, for example, ‘Chrome’.
e If you want to make your search statement case-insensitive, right-click it, and click Ignore String Value
Case.
4 Define more search statements, if required.
By default, all statements are ANDed. This means that they all need to be true for an item to be selected.
You can make a statement use OR logic, by right-clicking it and clicking Or Condition. If you are using two
statements, and marked the second one as ORed, this means that an item will be selected if either of these
statements is true.
5 Click the Find All button. The search results are highlighted in the Scene Area and the Selection Tree.
To save current search
1 Open the Selection Sets window.
2 Right-click anywhere in the window, and click Add Current Search.
3 Type a name for your search set, and press ENTER.
Menu: Edit ➤ Select ➤ Selection Sets ➤ Add Current Search
To export a current search
1 Click File ➤ Export ➤ Current Search XML.
2 In the Export dialog box, browse to the desired folder.
3 Enter a name for your file, and click Save.
To import a saved search
1 Click File ➤ Import Search XML.
2 In the Import dialog box, brose to the folder containing the file with the save search criteria, and select it.
3 Click Open.
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