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Appearance profile selectors define the object selection criteria and appearance

settings. The object selection can be based on property values or on search

and selection sets available in your Autodesk Navisworks file.

Using property values is more flexible, because search and selection sets need

to be added to your model first, and are frequently designed to cover a specific

area of the model (level, floor, zone and so on). For example, if your model

has five floors, to locate all 'Cold Water' objects with sets, you will need to set

up five 'Cold Water' selectors - one per floor. If you use a property-based

method, one 'Cold Water' selector is sufficient, as the search encompasses all

of the model, including extra properties coming from external databases if

available (see

External Database Links (page 371)).

There is no restriction as to how many selectors an appearance profile can

have. However, the order of selectors within a profile is important. The

appearance selectors are applied to the model sequentially, from top to bottom.

If an object belongs to more than one selector, the object's appearance will

be overridden each time it is processed by a new selector in the list. Currently

you cannot change the order of selectors once you added them to the list.