Viewpoints panel

Delete

Find saved viewpoints by search, type, duplicate name or comments, and delete them together.

On the ribbonStacked button, Viewpoints panel

NeedsSaved viewpoints in the document

What it does#

Navisworks deletes several viewpoints at once too: Ctrl or Shift click them in the Saved Viewpoints window and press Delete. This is for when finding them is the work. Search by name, or tick every animation, every view that shares its name with another, or every view carrying comments, check the count, and delete them as one operation.

How to use it#

Click Delete. Search or use the pickers to tick what should go.
Confirm. The dialog names how many items will be removed, because this changes the document.
The toast reports what was removed and anything that failed.

Limitations#

Deleting is one undo step in Navisworks, so Ctrl+Z works, but check the count in the confirmation first.

Other uses#

Clear out every view with a comment after the comments have been actioned.

Source#

The tool's own files, word for word as shipped in Viewpoints.panel/Manage.stack/Deleter.pushbutton. Every pyNavis tool is an ordinary bundle: copy these into your own extension and change what you like.

script.py Runs on a click. View on GitHub

"""Bulk deletes saved viewpoints: search and select, or pick them out by type,
duplicates, or comments, then confirm. The whole delete is one undo step."""
import clr

clr.AddReference('PyNavis.Runtime')
from System.Collections.Generic import List
from PyNavis.Runtime.Forms import ViewpointDeleterDialog, ViewpointRow

from pynavis import forms, output, toast, viewpoints


def to_rows(snapshot):
    rows = List[ViewpointRow]()
    for row in snapshot:
        r = ViewpointRow()
        r.Guid = row['guid']
        r.Key = row['key']
        r.ParentKey = row['parent_key']
        r.Folder = row['folder']
        r.Name = row['name']
        r.Kind = row['kind']
        r.Depth = row['depth']
        r.IsFolder = row['is_folder']
        r.Comments = row['comments']
        rows.Add(r)
    return rows


def run():
    snapshot = viewpoints.snapshot()
    if not snapshot:
        forms.alert('This document has no saved viewpoints.')
        return

    guids = ViewpointDeleterDialog.Show(to_rows(snapshot))
    if guids is None:
        return

    guids = list(guids)
    if not guids:
        toast.info('Nothing to delete.')
        return

    question = ('Delete %d saved viewpoint(s)?\n\n'
                'This removes them from the document.' % len(guids))
    if not forms.confirm(question, 'Delete viewpoints'):
        return

    def tick(done, count):
        output.progress(float(done) / count, 'Deleting %d of %d' % (done, count))

    removed, errors = viewpoints.apply_deletes(
        guids, progress=tick if len(guids) > 500 else None)
    output.progress(1.0)
    if errors:
        toast.warning('Deleted %d item(s), %d failed.' % (removed, len(errors)),
                      errors[0])
    else:
        toast.success('Deleted %d item(s).' % removed)


run()

bundle.yaml The bundle contract: the keys pyNavis reads for this tool. View on GitHub

title: Delete
tooltip: Find saved viewpoints by search, type, duplicate name or comments, and delete them together

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