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Query tool is a powerful integrated daabase search engine, replacing separate manual database engines. It allows quickly find BIM objects from massive project datasets based on simple or complex query rules, for example find objects with certain material or certain manufacturer.

PurposeFunctionalityTips

Functionality

  • New - Define a new Query rule
  • Save - Save existing Query rule
  • Run - Run actively selected Query rule
  • Rule editor - Define Query rules:
    • Use AND / OR / XOR rules to define multiple conditional rules
    • Use "Folder" rule to limit query to certain Data tree folder
    • Use "Attribute" rule to search based on attribute values. Define attribute name, operator and value conditions. 
    • Use "Data type" rule to limit query to certain data types
  • Resut styling - Define how results are shown:
    • Result - Presentation styles for results
    • Scene - Presentation styles for rest of the scene - opposite of results
    • Styling options:
      • When checkbox in styling opion is checked, then this options is applied, when unchecked, this option is not applied
      • Color - Color of objects
      • Transparency - Transparency of objects
      • Visible toggle - Show result objects visible / hidden
  • Satistics - Shows query statistics like how many total objects in query, how many objects match query rules, and how long query took to run

Tips

  • Link Query results into 4D Gantt tasks to schedule objects based on Query results. This way tasks will always find objects based on query rules, even models are updated and objects added or deleted in models. This makes it posible to 4D schedule objects dynamically wihtout need to manually select objects.