Chapter 4

Climbing the Selection Tree

Now that you've become proficient at aggregating, appending models, and moving around with the various navigation tools, let's look at the different ways that Autodesk® Navisworks® 2013 software manages these models. This chapter will cover object properties and explore ways to fully leverage this embedded metadata for use in model searches to identify specific objects. We'll also focus on the selection tree and project browser, both dockable windows that display the file structure of your appended models.

In addition, we'll explore the new Selection Inspector tool, which displays a list of all of the selected objects in your scene. Finally, we'll explore the selection tree display options that control visibility ...

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