Projects - Find dialog box

Defines searches for constraints, components, features, sketches, and welds. When you search for an object, all the browser nodes that contain searched objects expand to make selections more visible.

Note: If Assembly view is active in the browser, each constraint half is listed under the feature or component it constrains. Find locates the first occurrence in the browser. If the second half of the constraint is the desired search target, use the context menu option Other Half.

Access

In Design Assistant, click Tools Find, and on the menu, click Autodesk Inventor Files.

In the Autodesk Inventor Open dialog box, click Find.

With a file active, on the ribbon, Tools tab Find panel , click Find Component , or on the browser menu bar, click the binoculars icon.

On the Windows Start menu, click Search For Files or Folders Autodesk Inventor Files.

Find files that match set criteria

Search criteria

Lists the active search criteria.

Look For

Defines the type of object to search for.

Open Search

Opens a list of previously saved searches so that you can reuse criteria for the current search.

Save Search

Opens the Save Search dialog box so that you can save the current search for reuse. Enter a unique name for the search.

Match Case

When selected, causes the search to observe the capitalization you use in the search criteria.

Delete Line

Removes the selected search criterion from the list.

Clear Search

Removes all items from the list of search criteria.

Define More Criteria

Sets up search criteria that you can add to the current search.

And/Or

• And Find files that contain this criterion, in addition to previously defined criteria
• Or Finds files that contain any of the specified criteria.

Property Specifies a file property as the criterion. The Find command adjusts the listed properties to the active environment. The list of properties adjusts to the selected object type. For example:

• Assembly and Weldment environment

  Components, constraints, features, sketches, and welds

• Part environment

  Features and sketches

• File: Open dialog box, Design Assistant, or Windows Search

  File types (.ipt, .iam, .idw, .dwg (Autodesk Inventor Drawing), .ide, .ipn)

Click the arrow and select from the list, or enter the name of a custom property.

Condition Sets the condition for the specified property value. Select from the list.

Value Specifies the value of the selected property. After you set the property and condition, enter a value.

Add To List Adds the defined criterion to the list of search criteria.

Search Location

Current Path File

Limits the search to the files in the specified folder.

Look in

Sets the folder or file to search. Click Browse to find the desired search location.

Find Now

Searches the target location for files that meet the specified criteria. The results display in the Files Found dialog box. To save the list to a text file, click Save List , and specify a file name.