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Buttons
Find First Finds the first qualifying item, and selects it in the Scene View and the Selection Tree.
Find Next Finds the next qualifying item, and selects it in the Scene View and the Selection Tree.
Find All Finds all qualifying items, and highlights them in the Scene View and the Selection Tree.
TIP Click Home tab ➤ Visibility ➤ Hide Unselected to display only the search results in the Scene View.
Quick Find
To locate and select the objects quickly, use the Quick Find feature.
To quickly find items
1 Click Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel.
2 In the Quick Find text box, type in the string to search for in all item’s properties. This can be a word or a
few words. The search is not case-sensitive.
3 Click Quick Find
. Autodesk Navisworks finds and selects the first item in the Selection Tree that matches
the entered text, selects it in the Scene View, and stops the search.
4 To find more items, click Quick Find
again. If there are any more items that match the entered text,
Autodesk Navisworks selects the next one in the Selection Tree, selects it in the Scene View, and stops the
search. Subsequent clicks find next instances.
Command entry: To open the Quick Find dialog box: CTRL + F. To Find Next: F3
Create and Use Sets of Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks, you can create and use sets of like objects. This makes it easier to review and analyze
your model.
Selection Sets
Selection sets are static groups of items, and are useful for saving a group of objects that you want to regularly
perform some action on, such as hiding them, changing transparency and so on. They simply store a group of
items for later retrieval. There is no intelligence behind this set - if the model changes at all, the same items are
selected (assuming they are still available in the model) when recalling the selection set.
Search Sets
Search sets are dynamic groups of items, and work in a similar way to selection sets, except that they save search
criteria instead of the results of a selection, so that you can re-run the search at a later date as and when the
model changes. Search sets are much more powerful and can save you time, especially if your CAD files are
continuing to be updated and revised. It is also possible to export search sets, and share them with other users.
Sets Window
The Sets window is a dockable window, which displays both selection sets and search sets available in your
Navisworks file.
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