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Using BIM ViewerExplorer, you can retrieve specific information about any object in the overall model. This information includes the object's values and parameters (alphanumeric data) and its position in the model. In addition, you can find out see how the object interacts with adjacent objects (geometry) and with the overall model as a whole.

You can find this information in the Details palette, which usually consists of has the following areas:

Preview


• 3D preview
  Displays the selected object on its own. You can

move

• navigate the

element displayed

• selected object in

the

• 3D preview

in the same way

• as you would in full view.

• Object structure
  

You can show or hide the preview using Image Removed Toggle visibility.

• Shows how the elements making up the selected object are structured. Using Image Added Toggle visibility, you can show each element in the 3D preview or hide each element from the 3D preview. In addition, you can make each element transparent using Image Added Toggle opacity.

• Object properties
  Lists the object properties in accordance with the property set assigned to the project.
  You can find

Object properties
This area lists

• not only user-specific (Allplan)

attributes

• properties but also

global details of

• general information on the object, such as its name, geometry and unit.
  For example, the Element section shows the name of the model from which the object comes. This is particularly useful if the building model

consists of a number of

• has several superimposed specialist models from various sources and you cannot

find the IFC file containing

• see at a glance which model includes the object in question.

• Attachments
  Attachments are comments, files (for example, screenshots) and hyperlinks (for example, pointing to web sites of manufacturers) (see "

Attaching

• Adding comments and further information to objects").

To retrieve information about an object

1. To see the details of an object, click this object in the building model

1. .

   The Details palette opens on the right.
   
   

2. Click Image Added Object properties in the Details palette.

   You can see all available information on the object clicked.

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