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Using filters

Using filters

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Using filters

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'd like to show you some examples of using filters to customize the way that the graphics are displayed in a particular view. A filter is a really powerful tool that allows you to query your model for a certain criteria, and then based on that query, it can actually change the way the graphics display. So, I like to think of it as just your asking a question from your model. And then, once you get the answer to that question, you can change the way the graphics appear. You can turn things on and off, you can color code them, whatever it is to make the answers to those questions stand out. So, a big part of building information modeling, is having good information. So if you put good information in, filters is one of the ways you can get the information back out again, and ask questions of your model, and thereby make good decisions. So let's look at a few examples of what we might be…

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