Search Sets
Search sets help you find and reuse groups of model objects based on property criteria in Model Coordination.
- What are Search Sets?
- Building Search Set Queries
- Open the Search Sets Panel
- Search Sets Permissions
- Limitations
What are Search Sets?
Search sets are saved queries that scan model data and return objects matching your criteria. You can define the queries using basic or advanced filters in the viewer. These include model properties such as category, type, system, length and so on, dependent on the object-level data in your models and views.
Search sets are accessible in a dedicated panel in the viewer, and are available at the project level across all coordination spaces. From there you can select and highlight the objects from one or more search sets, edit and manage existing search sets, and create new search sets.
Building Search Set Queries
Search sets use the basic and advanced filter functionality available in the Model browser panel in the viewer. They can be created based on basic model object properties such as:
- Disciplines
- Categories
- Family
- Type
- Model name
- System or assembly
- Numeric values such as diameter, length, or thickness
In addition, the advanced filters let you create more customized rules based on properties, operators, and values, which can be combined using the logical conditions and or or. See Object Filters and Model Tree for more information.
Open the Search Sets Panel
In Model Coordination, use the Models or Views tool to open models in the viewer.
In the viewer, open the Model browser
panel.Click the Search sets
button to the bottom left of the panel. This opens the Search sets panel alongside the Model browser panel.
Use the panel to create, use, and manage search sets.
Search Sets Permissions
Project members must have at least View permission for the main coordination space folder to work with search sets.
| Capability | Creator | Non-creator | Project Admin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create and save | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Save as new | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View criteria | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apply (filter/select) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delete | Yes | No | Yes |
Limitations
- You can only use a maximum of 100 rules per search set.
- Search set names can only contain up to 64 characters.
- Search sets are currently public, available to all project members with the required permissions.
- Multiple search sets can't be combined into a single search set.
- You can't edit the query criteria of an existing search set. Instead, use the Save as new option to create a new search set.