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To follow a default link
1 Make sure links are switched on. If not, click Home tab ➤ Display panel ➤ Links
.
2 Click the desired link in the Scene View to open the attached data source.
Shortcut menu: Follow Link
To follow one of the non-default links
1 Make sure links are switched on. If not, click Home tab ➤ Display panel ➤ Links
.
2 Right-click the default link, and click the Select Item Containing Link option. This option is only available
for multiple links attached to the same item.
3 Right-click the selected item, and then click Links ➤ the link that you want to follow.
To follow a default link from the Properties window
NOTE You can use this procedure to follow links from original CAD files, or links that you have added yourself.
1 In the Scene View, select the object with a link.
2 Open the Properties window, right-click any tab, and click Follow Default Link.
To find links
1 Click Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel ➤ Find Items
.
2 In the Find Items window, click the Standard tab, press and hold CTRL, and click all files that comprise the
model.
3 Click the Category column, and select Hyperlinks from the drop-down list.
4 In the Property column, select the property name from the drop-down list, for example, “Name”.
5 In the Condition column, select the condition operator, for example, ‘=’.
6 In the Value column, type in the property value to search for, for example, “My Link”.
7 Click the Find All button. The search results are highlighted in the Scene View and the Selection Tree.
Manage Links
You can edit original links that have been converted from the native CAD files. If you do this, then save the
changes in an NWF file, then change the link in the original CAD file, and reopen the NWF file in Autodesk
Navisworks, then your edit “overrides” will remain. If you haven’t edited the links in Autodesk Navisworks,
however, the updated links from the CAD file will appear.
You can reset all links on an object to those that were originally converted from the CAD file. You can also reset
all links on all objects in the scene to their original state.
NOTE You cannot edit automatically generated links, such as the links that point to clash results, TimeLiner tasks and
so on.
You can delete any links that have been added to your file by Autodesk Navisworks users, and the links that
have been converted from original CAD files. You cannot delete automatically generated links, but you can turn
them off, so they don’t clutter the Scene View.
To edit a link
1 In the Scene View, right-click the link you want to edit, and click Edit Link.
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