2012
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012
- What Is New in This Release?
- How to Get Assistance
- Installation
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Prepare for Installation
- Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012
- Move to Autodesk Navisworks from a Previous Release
- Install Autodesk Navisworks for Multiple Users
- Quick Start to Network Administration and Deployment
- Set Up a Deployment
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site Folder?
- How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a site and project basis?
- How do I change which exporter plugins are installed?
- How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing it?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- Deployment Issues
- Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a deployment?
- Where should deployments be located?
- Where can I check if service packs are available for my software?
- How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit deployments?
- What are information channels?
- What are additional deployment configuration options?
- Licensing Issues
- Networking Issues
- Where do I find my server name?
- If I choose to create a log file, what kind of information does the log file contain?
- What is an administrative image (MSI) file?
- What is the impact of selecting all products to be included in the administrative image?
- How should I configure a network license server for a firewall
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- General Installation Issues
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Quick Start
- Start and Quit Autodesk Navisworks
- Automatically Save and Recover Autodesk Navisworks Files
- Command Line Options
- The User Interface
- Navigation with the Wheel Button
- Autodesk Navisworks Options
- Location Options
- Graphics System
- Display Units
- Profiles
- Search Directories
- Gizmos
- Work with Files
- Native File Formats
- Compatible CAD Applications
- Use File Readers
- 3DS File Reader
- ASCII Laser Scan File Reader
- Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader
- CIS/2 File Reader
- DWG/DXF File Reader
- DWF/DWFx File Reader
- DGN File Reader
- Faro Scan File Reader
- FBX File Reader
- IFC File Reader
- IGES File Reader
- Inventor File Reader
- JTOpen File Reader
- Leica Scan File Reader
- MAN File Reader
- Parasolid File Reader
- PDS File Reader
- Pro/ENGINEER File Reader
- Riegl Scan File Reader
- RVM File Reader
- SAT File Reader
- SketchUp SKP File Reader
- STEP File Reader
- STL File Reader
- VRML File Reader
- Z+F Scan File Reader
- Use File Exporters
- Manage Files
- View Scene Statistics
- Explore Your Model
- Control Model Appearance and Render Quality
- Review Your Model
- Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes
- Record and Play Animations
- Work Within a Team
- Share Data
- Animate Objects
- Create Photorealistic Visualizations
- Simulate Construction Scheduling
- Use the Autodesk Vault Add-In
- Reference
- Animation Export Dialog Box
- Appearance Profiler Dialog Box
- Background Settings Dialog Box
- Collision Dialog Box
- Convert Object Properties Dialog Box
- Culling Options Dialog Box
- Customize Dialog Box
- Default Collision Dialog Box
- Edit Key Frame Dialog Box
- Edit Link Dialog Box
- Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box
- Export Rendered Image Dialog Box
- File Options Dialog Box
- Units and Transform Dialog Box
- Image Export Dialog Box
- InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box
- New Link Dialog Box
- Options Editor Dialog Box
- Publish Dialog Box
- Piranesi EPix Dialog Box
- QTVR Object Movie Settings Dialog Box
- Section Plane Settings Dialog Box
- Glossary
- Index
Each category and property name has two parts - a user string which is shown
in the Autodesk Navisworks interface, and an internal string which is not
shown, and is mainly used by the API. By default, the items are matched on
both parts, but you can instruct Autodesk Navisworks to match only on one
part, if necessary. For example, you can ignore user names in searches, and
match items on their internal names only. This can be useful when you plan
on sharing your saved searches with other users who may be running localized
versions of Autodesk Navisworks.
The statements that do not use default settings are identified by this icon:
. It appears, for example, when you negate a statement, or choose to ignore
the upper and lower cases in property values.
Combining Search Statements
Search statements are read from left to right. By default, all statements are
ANDed. For example: “A AND B”, “A AND B AND C”.
You can arrange your statements into groups. For example, “(A AND B) OR
(C AND D)”. ORed statements are identified by a plus icon:
. All statements
preceding the ORed statement are ANDed, and all statements following the
ORed statement are ANDed. So to create two groups in the previous example,
you need to mark statement C as ORed.
There are no parentheses to visually show you the way the statements are
read. Simple statements such as “A OR B” will not be misinterpreted. For
complex searches, the order and groupings of the statements is more 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 Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel ➤ Find Items
.
Menu: Classic user interface: 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
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