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6 Click the Property column, and select the property name from the drop-down list, for example, ‘Material’.
The options available depend on the selected property category.
7 Click OK.
NOTE You can add as many definitions to your quick properties as you like.
To delete quick properties definition
1 Click the application button ➤ Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, expand the Quick Properties node, and click the Definitions
option.
3 On the Definitions page, click Grid View to display quick properties definitions as table rows.
4 Click the Category or Property for the definition that you want to delete.
5 Click Remove Element
.
6 Click OK.
To hide category names
1 Click the application button
➤ Options.
2 In the Options Editor, expand the Interface node, and click the Quick Properties option.
3 Select the Hide Category check box.
4 Click OK.
SwitchBack to AutoCAD and MicroStation
You can use the SwitchBack functionality to send the current view of the currently loaded file back to AutoCAD
(version 2004 or later) or MicroStation-based CAD products (/J and v8).
IMPORTANT The native CAD package must be installed on the same machine as Autodesk Navisworks for SwitchBack
to work.
To use SwitchBack with AutoCAD
1 For AutoCAD (version 2004 or later) or products based on it, first open the product in the usual manner,
and type: nwload in the command line to load the nwexport plugin.
NOTE If SwitchBack needs to be available every time AutoCAD is run, nwexport can be added to the set of startup
applications in AutoCAD.
2 Once the CAD package is running, and nwexport has been started, return to Autodesk Navisworks.
3 Click the application button
➤ Options.
4 In the Options Editor, expand the File Readers node, and click the DWG/DXF option.
5 On the DWG/DXF page, check that the Convert Entity Handles option is selected.
6 Select an object in the Scene View, and click Item Tools tab ➤ SwitchBack panel ➤ SwitchBack
.
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