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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: ViewControl BarsFind 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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