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You can also choose to use Presenter tool to apply texture materials to objects in the scene to obtain even better
results.
NOTE Any materials applied with the Presenter tool supersede any color and transparency changes.
To change color
1 Select the object you want to modify in the Scene View.
2 Click Item Tools tab ➤ Appearance panel ➤ Color drop-down, and choose the desired color.
Menu: Classic user interface: Edit ➤ Override Item ➤ Override Color
To change transparency
1 Select the object you want to modify in the Scene View.
2 Click Item Tools tab ➤ Appearance panel.
3 Move the Transparency slider to adjust how transparent or opaque the selected object is.
Menu: Classic user interface: Edit ➤ Override Item ➤ Override Transparency
Snapping
Snapping gives you control when measuring, moving, rotating, and scaling objects in Autodesk Navisworks.
Points and snap points are automatically snapped to. You can set the cursor to snap to the nearest vertex, edge,
or line when you pick geometry. You can also adjust the snapping angle and the snapping tolerance that are
used when you rotate geometry.
Different cursors feed back what is being snapped to:
DescriptionCursor
No snap, but a point on a surface is found.
A vertex, point, snap point or line end is
found to snap to.
An edge is found to snap to.
Geometry in Autodesk Navisworks is tessellated with triangles, and therefore, the cursor snaps to edges that may
appear to be in the middle of a face. Consider viewing the model in hidden line mode (Viewpoint tab ➤ Render
Style panel ➤ Mode drop-down ➤ Hidden Line
)to clarify which vertex or edge the cursor is snapping to.
To toggle snapping
■ Click the Item Tools tab, slide out the Transform panel, and click Snap Item
.
To customize snap settings
1 Click the application button ➤ Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, and click the Snapping option.
3 On the Snapping page, Picking area, select the check boxes for all required snaps, and enter the snapping
Tolerance. The smaller the value, the closer the cursor must be to a feature in the model before it snaps to
it.
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