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• Workflows and External Tools
• Setup Coordination Views
• Export NWC (Settings)
• Selection and Search Sets
• Appearance Profiler
• Create Standard Profiles (Services)
• Coordination Model Links

Prepare a Revit Model for Export

• Export a Model from Revit
• Close out of Navisworks

Use Models in Navisworks

• Append NWC
• SwitchBack

Import / Export Global Settings

• XML files per company/project

Create 3D Coordination Views

• Selection Box
• Orient to View
• Scope Boxes

Isolate Services and Apply Visibility/Graphics Toggles View Templates and Filters

Convert Element Parameters

• None - the file reader does not convert parameters.
• Elements - the file reader converts parameters for all

found elements.

• *All - the file reader converts parameters for all found

elements, including the referenced elements. Convert Element Properties

• Converts the Properties of each element in your Revit

file into Navisworks properties.

• Leave this check box clear if you want to retain the
• riginal Revit Properties.

Note:*Export time can dramatically increase

Convert Linked CAD formats

• When this check box is selected, linked CAD files such as

DXF, DGN, SAT and Sketchup format will be included in the exported NWC file.

Coordinates

• Project Internal - Uses internal coordinates for file

aggregation.

• Shared - Uses shared coordinates for file aggregation.

Export

• Entire Project - all geometry in the project is exported.
• Current View - everything that is currently visible is exported.
• Selection - only the currently selected geometry is exported.

NWD, NWC, and NWF files

• Navisworks (NWD) file, all loaded models, are saved to a single file.
• Navisworks file format (NWF), only a list with pointers to the files

currently loaded is saved.

• Opening CAD files in Navisworks, by default, a corresponding cache

file (NWC) is created.

• Selection sets are static groups of items, and are useful

for saving a group of objects that you want to regularly perform some action on, such as hiding them, changing transparency and run clashes.

• Search sets are dynamic groups of items, and work in a

similar way to selection sets, except that they save search criteria instead of the results of a selection, so that you can re-run the search at a later date as and when the model changes.

• Appearance Profiler allows you to set up custom

appearance profiles based on sets (search and selection) and property values, and use them to color-code objects in the model to differentiate system types and visually identify their status.

• Save DAT files to share or create standards

between projects and users.

• Viewpoint – Render Style – No Lights!

• SwitchBack enables you to select an object

in Autodesk Navisworks, and then locate and zoom into the same object in a native CAD package. (AutoCAD or Revit)

• View Options – Default View Discipline (Mech)
• Users need to have AutoCAD or Revit and

Navisworks installed on system.

Note: This functionality is not supported for linked files.

Bring a coordination model from Navisworks into Revit so you can coordinate your design with the work of teams who use different software.

• Make sure it’s a NWD file.
• Link Origin to Origin (default)
• Apply Appearance Profiles prior to Linking in Revit

• Keep folder with .nwc exports of your discipline

models and appending these to a main .nwf file. Then when then models are updated say in Revit

• ne can update the .nwc files and thus the .nwf is

updated.

• Stay up to date with service packs and fixes
• Minimize background programs/software when

working in both Revit and Navisworks.

• Plan maintenance on your systems with IT Dept.

ASAP!