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Create and reuse search sets

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Create and reuse search sets

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- [Instructor] What I want to do here is show the difference between a selection set where you manually pick objects and assign them to a name and a search set which uses really a query of the data to select objects that meet the criteria that are specified in the Find Items search. So first of all, I'm going to attach some files. If I say Append, this is under the School Project, Navisworks, cache files pushed out from Revit. And I'm going to use these that say Project Internal. And I'm not seeing anything because you need to change the filter to say show Document Files, File Sets, or Cache Files. Now what I want to do here is just attach three of them. You can hold the Control key so that you can do them all at the same time: Architecture, MEP, and Structure. So these will load very quickly because these are much smaller cache files. If I look at the project here, what I'll be able to do is pick something that's on my screen and I can see it highlighted in the selection tree. Or if…

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