Navisworks Essential Training

Quickly get up and running in Navisworks. Learn how to create virtual builds and walk-throughs of your models and anticipate outcomes before you begin.

Introduction

• An introduction to Navisworks

1. The Navisworks File System

• The three Navisworks versions
• Navisworks file types
• Opening files directly
• Working with Revit directly
• Exporting from Revit to Navisworks
• Appending and merging models

2. Navigating in a Model

• Looking at the navigation bar
• Walking through your model
• Rotating your model with the Orbit tool
• Looking around your model
• Using the Gravity tool
• Settings

3. Working with Viewpoints

• Saving a viewpoint
• Choosing render styles
• Changing the background
• Slicing your model using sectioning
• Getting rid of lines and text

4. The Review Tab

• Getting measurements
• Finding the shortest distance between objects
• Creating redlines

5. Dealing with Objects

• Selecting objects
• Overriding color, transparency, and a transform
• Hiding and turning on objects
• Moving items
• Rotating items
• Scaling items
• Adding links
• Viewing properties and adding fields
• Switching back to Revit
• Holding objects

6. Sorting and Grouping

• The Selection Tree
• Finding items
• Saving selections as a set
• Using the Quick Find tool
• Using the Selection Inspector

7. Clash Detection

• Creating a clash test and setting rules
• Selecting objects to clash and adding clearances
• Running the clash
• Resolving and reducing clashes
• Grouping and assigning clashes
• Creating reports: Viewpoints
• Creating reports: HTML

8. The TimeLiner

• Configuring appearances
• Creating tasks
• Adding selection sets to a task
• Adding multiple tasks and running the movie
• Simulating settings
• Exporting the TimeLiner
• Adding a data source
• Creating a simulation for the TimeLiner

9. Quantification

• Setting up your workbook
• Dragging items to the workbook
• Taking off the entire model
• Exporting the takeoff

10. Presenting, Animating, and Exporting

• Animating saved viewpoints
• Animating objects
• Creating a script

11. Rendering

• Adding lights
• Adding materials
• Adjusting the sun
• Rendering
• Appearance Profiler

12. Navisworks and BIM 360

• Activating Glue
• Downloading necessary EXE files
• Glueing a model
• Viewing a model in Glue
• Working with a glued model in Navisworks