Mastering Autodesk Navisworks 2013

Status Bar, Performance Indicators, and Context Menus

Located in the bottom-right corner of the screen is the status bar, which contains four performance indicators that give you feedback on the performance of your computer and currently loaded Navisworks model (Figure 1.28).

Figure 1.28 Status bar

Pencil Bar

Indicates how much of the current view is drawn, that is, how much image dropout there is in the current view. When the progress bar is at 100 percent, the scene is completely drawn, with no dropout. The icon changes color when a redraw is in progress. While the scene is being drawn, the pencil changes to yellow. If there is too much data ...