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- [Instructor] The idea here is to introduce the feature in Navisworks called Timeliner which lets you manage the sequential construction of the building elements that go into the finished building. First thing I want is to load the workspace that I created and called Timeliner. It's just the arrangement of the user interface components, the windows on the screen. On the home tab I'm going to Append the file that we're going to work with, which is the Apartments. Now it really wouldn't matter but I'm going to use the authoring file. So I can now see my apartment project. The most exciting feature for me in Navisworks are Search Sets because it lets you do so much. Here I'm going to say import the search set. And if I look under our Standards for Search Sets, Architecture, Apartments. What I've done here is created search sets that search for the specific objects. So for example if I click on Roadway, and I click on Find Items, it's looking for floors on level one that are parts. And…

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