Set Selection Resolution

When you click an item in the Scene View, Navisworks doesn’t know what level of item to start selecting at - do you mean the whole model, or the layer, or the instance, or group, or just the geometry? The default selection resolution specifies a starting point for the object path in the Selection Tree so that Navisworks can locate and select the item.

You can customize the default selection resolution on the Home tab > Select & Search panel. Alternatively, you can use the Options Editor. Or you can right-click any item in the Selection Tree and click Set Selection Resolution to X, where “X” is one of the available selection resolutions.

If you find you have selected the wrong level of item, you can interactively cycle through the selection resolution, without having to go to the Options Editor or the Home tab. You can do this by holding down the SHIFT key when clicking an item. This selects an item one level more specific each time you click the item until the resolution gets to “geometry”, at which point it reverts back to “model”. Clicking on a different item reverts the selection resolution back to default (as set in the Options Editor).

Change the Default Selection Resolution in the Options Editor

1. Click the application button > Options.
2. In the Options Editor > Interface node > Selection page, select the required starting point for the object path in the Resolution box.
3. Click OK.

Change the Default Selection Resolution with the Ribbon Tools

1. Click the Home tab and expand the Select & Search panel.
2. Click the Selection Resolution drop-down, and select the required option.

Selection Resolution Options

The available options for selection resolution are as follows:

• File. Makes the object path start at the file level; as a result, all objects at the current file level are selected.
• Layer. Makes the object path start at the layer node; as a result all objects within a layer are selected.
• First Object. Makes the object path start at the highest level of objects below the layer node, if applicable.
• Last Object. Makes the object path start at the lowest level of objects in the Selection Tree. Navisworks looks for composite objects first, and if none are found, the geometry level is used instead. This is the default option.
• Last Unique. Makes the object path start at the first unique level of objects (not multiple-instanced) in the Selection Tree.
• Geometry. Makes the object path start from the geometry level in the Selection Tree.