Search patterns

If your model naming convention uses period separators between each component of the name, you can conduct sophisticated searches to find model names using patterns.

You can also use patterns to decide which models are stored where. For example, all model names matching the pattern *.abc are saved in a specific database area. This may result in you having a model name that matches multiple patterns. Where a string of characters matches more than one pattern, the match is determined by the most closely matching pattern.

For example, top.124 matches both the following patterns:

• *1*
• *.124

Since top.124 matches more characters in *.124, that is the deciding pattern.