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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 iii 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 iv | Contents 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 Contents | v 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 vi | Contents 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 Contents | vii 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 viii | Contents 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 Contents | ix 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 x | Contents