show\hide pipe insulation

[ganeevez]

Hi all!

I export from Aveva PDMS model (*.rvm) in Navisworks with parameter insulation = 50%.
In Navisworks insulation displayed without transparency.
Please tell me how to hide navisworks fully pipe insulation? or how it can be made transparent?

[dgorsman]

You'll need to construct search criteria to isolate those objects which are insulation.  From there you can either manually adjust the appearance or use the Appearance Profiler tool.

[ganeevez]

in navisworks there is only a simple search in a name.

where there to set criteria of search?

[Patrick_Aps_9121]

You need to have 2 windows open: "Sets" and "Find Items"

Make your query in the Find Items window and execute it using "Find All" unit it does what you want.

Then in the Sets window you can use "Save Selection" (saving the result of a query) or, Save Sarch, which is saving the query.

Whenever the PDMS model gets updated, you have to re-run the query, but they appear also in the Set "tab" of the Selection Tree (Standard - Compact - Properties -Sets), you can easily re-run them, even in Freedom.

You als can export these Search Sets (the queries) to XML file and import them in other NWF and NWD files.

The Appreance Profiler can the automatically use the query to overrule the transparancy.