Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 User Guide

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Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012
User Guide
April 2011
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Contents
Chapter 1 Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . . 1
What Is New in This Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to Get Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Find Information Using InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Overview of InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Search for Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Access Subscription Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Use Communication Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Save and Access Favorite Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Use the Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Specify InfoCenter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Get More Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Learn the Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
View the Product Readme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Join the Customer Involvement Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Prepare for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
System Requirements for Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . 30
Install Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Understand Administrative Permission
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Locate Your Autodesk Navisworks Serial Number and
Product Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Avoid Data Loss During Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Install Multiple or Bundled Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . 36
Install Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Launch Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
How to Launch Autodesk Navisworks in Another
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Add or Remove Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Repair Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 42
Uninstall Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . 42
Move to Autodesk Navisworks from a Previous Release . . . . . . 43
Install Autodesk Navisworks for Multiple Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Quick Start to Network Administration and Deployment . . . . . 44
Deployment Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Set Up Network Tools and Your License Server . . . . . . . . 50
Distribute the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Distribute an Autodesk Navisworks Product . . . . . . . . . 54
Set Up a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment . . . . . . . . 55
Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Your Deployment Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Create a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Modify a Deployment (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Point Users to the Administrative Image . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Uninstall an Autodesk Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installation Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
General Installation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs
to be updated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network
or network to stand-alone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
When performing a Typical installation, what gets
installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site
Folder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a
site and project basis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
How do I change which exporter plugins are
installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks? . . . . 75
When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing
it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my
system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Deployment Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a
deployment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Where should deployments be located? . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Where can I check if service packs are available for my
software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit
deployments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
What are information channels? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
What are additional deployment configuration
options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Licensing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
What is the difference between a stand-alone license and
a network license? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
What is the benefit to using a network licensed version
of the software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
What is Internet Explorer used for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Networking Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Where do I find my server name? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
If I choose to create a log file, what kind of information
does the log file contain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
What is an administrative image (MSI) file? . . . . . . . . . 82
What is the impact of selecting all products to be included
in the administrative image? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
How should I configure a network license server for a
firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Uninstall and Maintenance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
When adding or removing features, how can I tell what
features get installed by default? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding
or removing features? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
When should I reinstall the product instead of a
repair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my
system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 3 Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Start and Quit Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Automatically Save and Recover Autodesk Navisworks Files . . . . . . . 86
Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Parts of Autodesk Navisworks Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Application Button and Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Keytips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Classic User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Scene View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Dockable Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Undo/Redo Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Autodesk Navisworks Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Default Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Navigation with the Wheel Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Autodesk Navisworks Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Location Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Graphics System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Display Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Search Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Gizmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Chapter 4 Work with Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Native File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Compatible CAD Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Supported CAD File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Supported Laser Scan File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Use File Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
3DS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
ASCII Laser Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
CIS/2 File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
DWG/DXF File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Overview of Object Enablers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
DWF/DWFx File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
DGN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Faro Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
FBX File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
IFC File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
IGES File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Inventor File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
JTOpen File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Leica Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
MAN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Parasolid File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
PDS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Pro/ENGINEER File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Riegl Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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RVM File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
SAT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
SketchUp SKP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
STEP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
STL File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
VRML File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Z+F Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Use File Exporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
AutoCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Add the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Use the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
CAD Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Revit File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
MicroStation File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Load the MDL Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Export Files from the Key-In Command Line . . . . . . . . 202
Export Files from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Customize the DGN File Exporter Options . . . . . . . . . 204
Viz and Max File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
ArchiCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Manage Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Open Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Create Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Save and Rename Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Add Sheets/Models to the Currently Opened File . . . . . . 214
Project Browser Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Work with 2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Add Geometry and Metadata to the Current
Sheet/Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Complex Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Append Geometry and Metadata to the Current
Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Adjust Units and Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Refresh Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Merge Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Email Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Receive Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Use Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Command Line Options for Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . 236
View Scene Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Chapter 5 Explore Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Navigate a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
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Orientation in a 3D Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Product-Specific Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Navigation Bar Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
SteeringWheels Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Classic Navigation Modes and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Overview of ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
ViewCube Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Reorient the View of a Model with ViewCube . . . . . . . 277
Set the View Projection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Home View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Examine Individual Objects with ViewCube . . . . . . . . 283
Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Overview of Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Reposition and Reorient the Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . 285
Control the Display of Navigation Tools on the Navigation
Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Overview of SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Wheel Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
View Object Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Tour Building Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Full Navigation Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
2D Navigation Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
3Dconnexion 3D Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Set Camera Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Control the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Position and Focus Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Navigation Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Head-Up Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Reference Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Control the Realism of Your Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Crouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Third Person View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Chapter 6 Control Model Appearance and Render Quality . . . . . . . . 317
Control Model Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Select Render Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Full Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Shaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Wireframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
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Hidden Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Add Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Full Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Scene Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Head Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
No Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Select Background Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Adjust Displaying of Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Snap Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Control Render Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Use Culling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Make Objects Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Control Rendering of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Adjust Scene Rendering During Navigation . . . . . . . . . 331
Accelerate Display Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Adjust Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Stereo Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Chapter 7 Review Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Select Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Interactive Geometry Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Selection Tree Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Selection Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Set Selection Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Set Highlighting Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Hide Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Find Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Find Items Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Quick Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Find All Sheets and Models Containing the Selected Object . . . . . . 356
Find Items in Other Sheets and Models Window . . . . . . . . . 357
Create and Use Sets of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Sets Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Create and Manage Selection and Search Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Compare Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
External Database Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Manipulate Object Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Transform Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
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Change Object Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Reset to Original Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Measure Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Measure Tools Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Measuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Use Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Redline Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
View Redlines and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Tags Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Edit Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Edit Redlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Find Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Find Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Quick Find Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Find Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Manage Comment and Tag IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Link Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Display Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Customize Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Add Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Find and Follow Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Manage Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Quick Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
SwitchBack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Appearance Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Chapter 8 Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Create and Modify Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Overview of Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Saved Viewpoints Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Save Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Recall Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Organize Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Edit Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Default Viewpoint Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Share Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Enable and Use Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Customize Section Plane Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Move and Rotate Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Link Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Enable and Use Section Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
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