Navisworks Fly Through Video
Breanna Mangels
These hotkeys should speed things up if you are marking/unmarking checkboxes under Viewpoint > Motion Settings > Realism.
If gravity is off, when you hit G on the keyboard, you'll have gravity and collision on. Then you can hit D on the keyboard to toggle off collision detection.
Being able to ignore collision objects (by search set might be the best way to implement) *would* make a nice feature improvement. I'm not sure how much additional load that would impose on the software though. I think the overall-average users hardware is at a low point on the cycle, and it will be another year or two before that increases as companies do a dual-transition to new hardware along with Win7.
Personally I'd like to see a hotkey that you can simply hold while walking to allow the avatar to 'ghost' through wall - like just hold CTRL while walking (assuming Collision is on) will allow you to pass through that wall.
Yeah, but what about objects which are not "doors" per se - safety gates, removable walls, and so on? What about those who don't use Revit, or those who are coordinating with others who are not using Revit e.g. via IFC?
On a model of a gas plant that was sent to me, I am trying to zoom into a selected item but when I do, it does not zoom through the other objects in the plant. I other models I can zoom in on a selected item and it will zoom through the other objects in the model but for some reason it does not do that in this model.
Thanks @Anonymous , but it is not the Walk/Fly collision setting. I am using the selection tool when this is happening. It's strange because on a previous revision of this model this has not happening and unfortunately I do not have a contact for the creator so I can not ask them what they changed.
I did. It is a bit of a clinch in Navisworks. On the Navigation bar, I clicked onto one of the navigation bar tools (I can't remember which one) then back to the "Select" option which is my preference, then it work just fine.
I've used Navisworks simulate & manage for many years, I find it extremely useful for viewing complicated models in parallel with modelling in another product (AutoCAD, ShipConstructor, Inventor). If we take AutoCAD as an example, my workflow tends to be:
I'd say that 95% of the time this has worked seamlessly, especially with AutoCAD. However, I've recently shifted to using Inventor as my primary package - and generally the functionality works the same. However I'm having a problem with colors and textures: When I append an assembly file, sometimes Navisworks displays those colors & textures I've chosen in Inventor, and sometimes it doesn't. This appears to be somewhat random as I work on the model and refresh. e.g. sometimes wood will have color & grain, sometimes it will just display gray.
In case I'm being a bit of a halfwit, when you say 'set your active project to the folder', do you mean copy the file path and paste it into the box? There doesn't seem to be a drop down to specify the folder from the options editor directly.
Many thanks for your help with this. Sorry for the delay in responding - I've just been updating to Navisworks Manage 2018 in the vague hope it might be a quick fix, but unfortunately not - the problem remains.
The images are part of a larger project converting shipping containers for temporary accommodation. All has been modeled in Inventor, and all materials are those that come pre-loaded. So, for the timber floor that shipping containers have, I assigned the wood (birch) material to the part using iproperties. I haven't changed the appearance indirectly. This is visible in the Inventor.jpg.
When I append the same assembly to Navisworks, this material is lost. See Navisworks.jpg. However, you'll notice that what has carried through is the steel box sections are displayed in blue. These I did manually override the appearance of the normal iproperties mild steel material.
@michael.coviello we are currently on 2019 Inventor/Navisworks, our deployment for 2022 products is very close.
I guess my querry was more to do with the materials from Inventor not replicating in Navisworks? Not appearances and textures.
These buttons belong to the test drawer, now the problem with the drawer happens when I expand it, I cannot see it's bottom, and i cannot even scroll down through it to see the lower commands(group, comment, display) I cannot.
Does this happen only with one project, or on any project that you open in this version of Navisworks? If it's only this particular project, that might indicate a problem with the models you're opening. If this is the case, please let me know whether you are using Revit models, dwgs, IFCs, etc.
this problem only persists when I use my current large project on my workstation, if I created a new project file then NWM works just fine, but I can't just create another file because all of my clash history is on that buggy file, and clash results cannot be ported from a file to another.
I have a very confusing problem. The majority of my work is done in Inventor Professional 2018, lately we have been using 3d scan technology to create point clouds. I import the point clouds into my model in inventor and model around them, that all works fine...
My problem is when I think open the assembly in navisworks (generally to create a animation or walkthrough video) the point cloud only comes with the model sometimes. Sometimes when I open the model in navisworks the point cloud will be there as well and in the correct spot. Sometimes though it will only be my model with no point cloud and I have no idea why.... I usually just add the point cloud in navisworks but usually takes a lot of extra time to line the point cloud up with the model.....
As for your second point that is correct, but my problem isn't that I need to line them up over and over it is that some of my team doesn't create a good origin in the point cloud, so lining the model up with the point cloud in navisworks is next to impossible just the first time.
If you aren't already doing so, pre-process the point cloud in ReCap so the same RCP can be referenced in all products. My own preference is to not rely on inheriting point clouds hosted inside design models; by having them discretely in each product they can be unloaded where needed.
You have an assembly in Inventor, you attach a point cloud to that assembly. You then go to navisworks manage 2018 and open that assembly same assembly. Although the entire assembly is there sometimes the point cloud isn't.
As long as I line the two up correctly it is a non issue because i can append them together, but some of my staff do a lazier way of lining them up in inventor and then it is very difficult to line it up.
@mgreey I understand. There is a case opened under your Autodesk account if you would like to upload the model there, or you can send it to me in a private message. If this is a problem with the software we would need to reproduce it for the development team to see what's going on. If you don't want to pursue that, no worries, just let me know!
You could always try to use a Factory Layout...... if you use Factory Utilities you can create a new layout in Inventor and attach the point cloud then using the Factory Sync with Navisworks option you can append the file and you will then see the point cloud in Navisworks.
For some reason, Navisworks tends to ignore 3D points from Inventor models, the same way DWF visualizations made out of Inventor models will ignore all the 3D points in it.
It is not good.
The only partial good news is that exporting an Inventor model to 3D PDF will keep the 3D points there, but then you have to MANUALLY enable all of them to be visible... nonsense.
Our workflow is very point cloud heavy these days, and we typically create a "Layout Part" that includes nothing but a 2D plan view with a point cloud overlaid in that PART file. That .ipt will then be attached to out .iam with other "area" sub-assemblies.
Our issue is that we do not have a point cloud file, but rather an IPT with 3D point features hanging, which were given in the file from the customer. If you create a new IPT and try adding 3D points you can see that appending to Navisworks does not translate those. Which seems strange anyways.
The only other thing I can come up with, and I'm assuming you have already exacerbated this option, are the "Render Style" panel options. The key setting that may apply would obviously be the "Point" display setting, but the "Mode" setting may come into play as well.
Nah, thanks for trying though. Navisworks does not even show the option to enable points, probably because the 3D feature points are complete and utterly ignored by the fellow Autodesk software upon import.
In the Navisworks Options Editor (Export Settings), I have 'Convert Element Properties' checked, and I have tested with 'Convert Element Parameters' set to both Elements and to All, but neither setting gave me the 'full' set of properties about those elements. I have seen other NWC files where Properties has TONS of data, and thats what I'm looking to achieve. Thanks in advance!
Would it be possible to share a portion of this file for investigation purposes (either posting here, via PM or email)? It doesn't have to be the full file, it could be just a couple of the loaded families.
Hi Christian, Here's a snip of a duct model from AutoCAD MEP, the metadata of the tab being displayed is exactly what I'd like to get from Revit: Size/System Abbreviation/Length are the basics. TOD and BOD would be great as well.
When I select the elements in Navisworks, I am seeing all of the properties that I would expect. The images below show the Properties dialog when I select a segment of duct and a length of sanitary pipe.
thank you @brettgatti. I'd love to see that tab, but it's just not coming through. Almost none of the metadata is, therefore filters, etc are also not working. I'm on Revit 2018.3.2 and NWM 2018 Update 2. And I've also tried matching your settings exactly.