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Browse objects with Project Explorer

Browse objects with Project Explorer

- [Instructor] In the previous video, you were introduced to Project Explorer and its purpose. Let's dig a little deeper into how Project Explorer works and how it can be used to browse several different types of objects. I'll begin by launching Project Explorer, and let's just go through each of the tabs, so you can get a feel for all of the different object types that it represents. We have alignments, assemblies, sub-assemblies, corridors, point groups, surfaces, feature lines, parcels, catchments, gravity pipe networks, pressure pipe networks, sample line groups, AutoCAD blocks, property set definitions, and object sets. So that's a lot of different object types that you can manage and manipulate within Project Explorer. Notice also that for each of these project types, there's a number in the tab, and this represents how many of those particular objects are in the drawing. So there are three alignments in the drawing, one assembly, six sub-assemblies, one corridor, and so on…

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