Inspector is a tool enabling management of elements (objects) included in a project created in Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing. By standard, the Inspector dialog displays besides the viewer (of graphic model definition), in the left-hand side of the program window. The width of the dialog is adjustable to accommodate space for the graphic model definition field.
The most important tasks carried out in the Inspector include:
- Presentation of project contents
- Presentation of generated views out of which printouts can be composed
- Change of scale of the general view in which objects will be created
- Change of view scales
- Change of name
- Deletion of views
- Filtering of elements (objects) in drawings
- Generation and management of the project drawing documentation.
The Object Inspector dialog is divided into three parts:
- Options for object filtering
- Four tabs containing lists (sets) of project elements depending on the design stage (modeling / positions / printouts)
- The table presenting properties of selected objects.
The top of the dialog includes options for filtering objects in drawings. A defined filter is identified by the name presented in the filter selection list in the Object Inspector dialog as shown below.
The following buttons are provided under the selection list:
- Show - clicking this button displays selected elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing
- Hide - clicking this button hides selected elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing
- Select - clicking this button selects chosen elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing.
Clicking 
in the Object Inspector dialog opens the Filter management dialog as shown below.
The dialog includes all defined filters and the following buttons:
- Show, Hide, Select - they work the same as in the Object Inspector dialog (see the description above)
- Unselect - clicking this button switches off selection of chosen elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing
- Select All / Unselect All - clicking this button selects / switches off selection of all elements (filters) provided on the list
- New, Edit, Delete these options are not available in the current program version.