tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41966910089558626842024-03-15T02:58:45.274-05:00Navisworks/BIM 360 InfoCenterTips and News for Autodesk Navisworks and BIM 360 ProductsDwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-3486109476436550122018-06-21T08:58:00.000-05:002018-06-21T08:58:00.765-05:00AU 2018 - Go Vote NOW for your favorite classesBusy, busy, busy, my life for the past 12 months. Being full time on a project running 3D MEPFP coordination, an extremely fast paced project, really keeps a person away from things like a blog :)<br />
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But, something good will hopefully come out of it! This is where you come in. With the work I've been doing, I submitted a class to to present at Autodesk University 2018 this coming November (2018) in Las Vegas (USA). <br />
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Thank you in advance!Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-82955196683526546672017-01-26T15:47:00.000-06:002017-01-26T15:52:55.361-06:00Navisworks 2017 Crashing - Updating Clash TestsWow, it's been a looooooong time since I've actually posted!<br />
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We've been having an issue lately where Navisworks 2017 was crashing when some of our users were using the Update All for Clash Detection. Tried multiple things, updating graphics card drivers, reinstalling, service packs, nothing worked. Reached out to Autodesk and got a response that there are some Windows updates that is causing the issue. Well, today, Autodesk released a KB article outlining what updates are causing the crashing behavior:<br />
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The development team is continuing to investigate the cause and will update the above KB article if more Windows updates are causing the crashing to occur. Hopefully, they come up with a Service Pack or Hotfix that will address the issue so we don't have to continuously check our Windows updates to make sure these listed updates don't get installed.Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-58442047930066166812014-09-23T10:03:00.001-05:002014-09-23T10:03:27.456-05:00Turning the Page<p>Recently, I turned the page and started a new chapter in my work life. I’ve moved on from being an Application Engineer for an Autodesk reseller in the Chicago area and am happy to announce that I am now the Technical Application Manager for a General Contractor in the Chicago area!</p> <p>I’ll continue to keep this blog going, just may have a slightly different twist on some of the items I’ll be posting about. I’ll now be dealing with much more that just Autodesk products, so you may start to see some info coming across about how non-Autodesk products are being utilized in conjunction with Navisworks and the BIM 360 products. You may even start to see posts about non-Autodesk products in general! </p> <p>It’s definitely a different world being back in the AEC industry…should be a fun ride!</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-9639275608794789762014-08-28T15:49:00.001-05:002014-08-28T15:49:26.026-05:00Shortest Distance comes to BIM 360 Glue<p>If you haven’t opened up BIM 360 Glue (desktop application) in a few weeks, an update was published and Glue now has a new Measure Tool….Shortest Distance! This was one of the tools I couldn’t believe Glue didn’t have when I first started working with Glue and coming from using Navisworks.</p> <p>A much welcomed addition!!</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-RpdakuF8Pz0/U_-VzChb2AI/AAAAAAAAAyM/f3pWVFdnuQ4/s1600-h/image%25255B1%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iMtKlwkVJ84/U_-V0E9IG4I/AAAAAAAAAyU/Jf-BjC3t2Pk/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800" width="426" height="523"></a></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-63569868255626942322014-07-15T15:38:00.001-05:002014-07-15T15:38:39.269-05:00Latest Update to BIM 360 Glue–Clash Status and Markup<p>If I have a dollar for every time someone asked me if Glue had a status for it’s clashes I’d be writing this blog from a beach in Maui…ah, who am I kidding, I wouldn’t be writing this blog <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2HVqvR-3-Tw/U8WRQ-kLiiI/AAAAAAAAAxU/CgT3zF9y0YE/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800"></p> <p>Anyway, I won’t be (theoretically) collecting those dollars anymore! The latest update to BIM 360 Glue is the introduction of Clash Status. You can now mark your clashes to be Open, Ignored or Closed and fixed clashes will now become Resolved instead of being removed. As for Ignored & Closed status, here’s an explanation from the <a href="http://help.autodesk.com/view/BIM360/ENU/?guid=GUID-431B5D3D-A4E2-472C-9435-CEBD2DF28172" target="_blank">Help</a>…</p> <p><em>Clashes can be marked as "ignored" by the team members working on the merged model. Only admins can "close" clashes, providing a more formal level of control for the VDC/BIM manager. Clash status can be changed back to "open" if needed. Glue recognizes if a clash from a previous version has been fixed. If the clash no longer exists, it will be automatically marked as "resolved."</em> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_r11AQrpc9w/U8WRRcoC0PI/AAAAAAAAAxc/ZpdpJQzvOrI/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_KPpRD7-4mU/U8WRSX8x7gI/AAAAAAAAAxg/aTgw_w_UaYE/image_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="401" height="489"></a></p> <p>Another update is the ability to add a Markup directly to the Clash. In the past, you could kind-of do this, but it was held as a Markup outside of the Clashes. Now you can just select a clash and add a Markup to it. The nice thing about the Markup in Clash is that it also adds a Markup to the Markup “tool”, so even Clash Markups can be viewed with the iPad app!</p> <p>Note though, if you use the Filtering/Grouping, you can’t add a Markup to the Group, you have to pick individual clashes to add a Markup.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vupyB96Nvgg/U8WRS1fKTAI/AAAAAAAAAxo/jTBEgJfA7Xs/s1600-h/image3%25255B2%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Nw8_bIwecNk/U8WRTa-ck_I/AAAAAAAAAx0/ZPYeBTngHng/image3_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="397" height="487"></a></p> <p>Oh, one more thing….these updates are available to ALL projects, new or old. Old projects (old meaning before July 11, 2014 basically) will prompt you for an update when you go into your Clash Test. It does a “one time update” and then you have the new functionality!</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-37912703684057718222014-06-26T08:48:00.001-05:002014-06-26T08:48:29.601-05:00Updating the Navisworks NWC Exporters<p>With (practically) each and every Service Pack/Update that Autodesk puts out for Navisworks, there is a corresponding update for the NWC Exporters…</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-j30Yc5tk-PM/U6wkqhajHzI/AAAAAAAAAw8/1xeV-9uf22o/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7VIWZubnZbw/U6wkrLjpdJI/AAAAAAAAAxA/otcf7FYV34c/image_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="501" height="319"></a></p> <p>How many of you actually download and install the update for the NWC Exporters?</p> <p>Well, if you don’t, you should be. I ran across an issue the other day where a customer was exporting a Revit 2014 model to NWC (2014) and many of the walls weren’t showing up when opening/appending the NWC file in Navisworks, even though the walls were visible in the Revit view. I got the file and tried it myself, worked perfectly. I knew the customer had SP1 for Navisworks 2014 installed, so I asked if they had also updated the Exporters…nope. Once they installed the update for the Exporters, all was good.</p> <p>It’s very easy to miss, or should I say look over, when you go grab an update for Navisworks. But the next time Autodesk rolls out an update for Navisworks, make sure you also install the update for the Exporters (if it’s available).</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-80676294777367690502014-03-27T10:45:00.001-05:002014-03-27T10:45:04.091-05:00What’s New in Navisworks 2015<p>Wow, time has flown this year, the 2015 Autodesk products have been announced!</p> <p>In regards to Navisworks, here’s my highlights of the new features for 2015…</p> <ul> <li>2D Quantification Tools (Incorporating similar tools that were in QTO)</li> <li>3D Quantification Improvements</li> <ul> <li>Property Mapping now available (similar functionality was in QTO)</li></ul> <li>Autodesk Rendering Enhancements</li> <ul> <li>Navis get’s cloud rendering!</li></ul> <li>ReCap/Point Cloud Improvements</li> <ul> <li>Navis has new ways to “convert” the point cloud, which will help with performance and being able to select portions of a point cloud.</li></ul> <li>Redline Toolset now includes and Arrow tool (finally, no more manual arrows!)</li></ul> <p>This isn’t an all-encompassing list, just a few highlights. As I get more time to actually get into some of the new features, I’ll report back <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-C13THo218mg/UzRHff8ZRNI/AAAAAAAAAws/t6Zm1sPix4c/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800"></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-12465449394784951242014-03-10T09:08:00.001-05:002014-03-10T09:08:24.283-05:00Autodesk 360 vs BIM 360<p>This topic seems to come up quite a bit and it usually starts off with “isn’t BIM 360 part of my Autodesk 360 account services?” It’s a pretty easy question to answer…”No”. Thanks for asking, talk to you later <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ajEp3UTQ6LA/Ux3HTt5Fm6I/AAAAAAAAAv0/aPHOd7COKro/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800"> <p>No, I don’t just leave it at that… <p>In reality, it’s pretty common for folks to think that BIM 360 is part of their “subscription cloud services” since Autodesk has gone to utilizing the “360” badge for most, if not all, of their cloud based services. If you take a look at Autodesk’s <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/360-cloud">Autodesk 360 Cloud Services</a> website, it talks about what services are available in the cloud. It discusses the freebies like storage, access anywhere, etc., then talks about “advanced” features, which includes Clash Detection and Field Management….i.e. Glue and Field (respectively). <p>However, the BIM 360 services/products are completely separate from the Autodesk 360 cloud services…no tie-in whatsoever. Yes, BIM 360 Glue/Field are cloud based software/services, but I have yet to see anything, whether it’s my own usage of Glue/Field or any demo/presentation/literature from Autodesk that shows a workflow that allows you to access information you’ve saved to your Autodesk 360 account. <p>Let me take a step back for a second and explain Autodesk 360 services. At its core, Autodesk 360 accounts give you storage capability (5GB for non-Autodesk users/non-subscription users and it’s 25GB for Autodesk Subscription accounts/users). You can also view any document you’ve uploaded to the cloud via a mobile app, share the document with anyone (even if they don’t have an Autodesk account), and even edit a DWG file that’s been saved to your cloud storage with basic editing tools. Then, we get into the Subscription benefits…which vary depending on what products or suite of products you have. I’m not going to go into the whole list, but examples are analysis, rendering and simulation to name a few. What’s not included, which is where the confusion sets in, is BIM 360 Glue and BIM 360 Field. <p> <p>For example, take a look at this screen shot from the <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/360-cloud">Autodesk 360 Cloud Services</a> website… <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2wzUmuwfm-M/Ux3HT_CWaxI/AAAAAAAAAv8/Q8Ha5eQsTug/s1600-h/clip_image0024.png"><img title="clip_image002" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="clip_image002" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ha_uOu0jIXw/Ux3HUapVjQI/AAAAAAAAAwE/wKajuIHU5cU/clip_image002_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="501" height="298"></a> <p>Notice how the “flow” of information goes…from Revit, to the Cloud Services (Autodesk 360), then to BIM 360 Glue/Field and even back in the opposite direction. <b>Currently this is not a workflow that works!</b> You can’t access a document of any kind from the Autodesk 360 Services cloud in the BIM 360 applications, or even push information to the Autodesk 360 cloud services from the BIM 360 applications. In my eyes, the image should really look more like this… <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sibl9bViW0c/Ux3HU6V8YkI/AAAAAAAAAwI/aS5mhZtv2qk/s1600-h/clip_image0034.png"><img title="clip_image003" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="clip_image003" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eYRhHfSLww0/Ux3HVvEd8TI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/o0j_yfilk5I/clip_image003_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="513" height="305"></a> <p>Now, the only thing I can say about the above referenced screen-grab is this: there is a possibility that Autodesk can actually make this workflow work via their consulting/programming group, but I haven’t seen or heard of it. <p>So to sum up, Autodesk 360 and BIM 360 are two different cloud services that Autodesk provides. Autodesk 360 can be a Dropbox-like storage for the non-Autodesk or non-subscription users, or it can be that plus a cloud service area to perform some resource hogging tasks (rendering, analysis, etc.) for those on Autodesk Subscription. On the other hand, BIM 360 Glue/Field are separate cloud-based applications that utilize their own cloud area to host the associated data per project (or potentially per ‘host” for Glue, which can contain more than 1 project). Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-67122766353373062222014-02-04T10:11:00.001-06:002014-02-04T10:11:34.980-06:00Updated Version of BIM 360 Glue Released<p>The folks over at <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/" target="_blank">Beyond Design</a> have a great little post going over some of the new features of the Autodesk Glue iPad app (version 2.2), which can be viewed <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2014/02/bim-360-glue-mobile-22-released.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p> <p>Some of the new features include…</p> <ul> <li>Updated User Experience</li> <li><font style="font-weight: normal">Select Object Property URLs</font></li> <ul> <li>You can actually go to the URL from the App</li></ul> <li><font style="font-weight: normal">Support for Transparent Objects in Views and Markups</font></li> <li><font style="font-weight: normal">Contextual User Assistance</font></li></ul> <p>You can get the new/updated version by going to the Updates in your App Store on your iPad. </p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-17261262272911626312014-01-30T14:42:00.001-06:002014-01-30T14:42:32.177-06:00BIM 360 Field Update Coming<p>If you use Autodesk BIM 360 Field, you’re going to be seeing some changes very soon around how documents, specifically PDF’s, are handled when viewing them on the iPad. <p>When you login to Field, you’ll be seeing a message that looks like the image below… <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--puzh3qX4Rg/Uuq5LWBeAxI/AAAAAAAAAuA/nhJWnU5RAPM/s1600-h/Field_PDF%252520Update%25255B4%25255D.png"><img title="Field_PDF Update" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Field_PDF Update" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-BEtyJdR7rvw/Uuq5MIGIebI/AAAAAAAAAuI/P-Y93H2vuVE/Field_PDF%252520Update_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="429" height="291"></a> <p>Now, I know many of you will be asking the question; “when is the update going to be live?” If I knew, I’d tell you. As with anything Autodesk pushes out for updates, the date is held confidential. If I had to guess, it’s going to be a few weeks. I’m sure they are pushing this notice out so that people can be prepared because you’ll need to do some “upgrading” to your documents, just like the notice says (second line from the bottom). The upgrade is actually a one-time re-sync of your Document Library, so it’s going to take a bit longer to sync your iPad when you choose to do so. You do have the ability to wait to upgrade the Library (see below), so please choose carefully. Just remember, once the Document Library gets updated, everyone on that project is going to have to do the re-sync of the Library to the iPad. <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BxvyIhiKgQk/Uuq5M6pG9CI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/WqjYOzvrnH4/s1600-h/Field_PDF%252520Update2%25255B12%25255D.png"><img title="Field_PDF Update2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Field_PDF Update2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rc5F5wstPZE/Uuq5NgKCfZI/AAAAAAAAAuY/MAuQcbjPq18/Field_PDF%252520Update2_thumb%25255B10%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="429" height="280"></a> <p>If you are going to update the Library on your iPad, I’d do this while connected to a good, strong, reliable wireless connection to make sure the update goes all the way through. Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-70087846890861208602014-01-30T08:00:00.000-06:002014-01-30T08:00:02.247-06:00Autodesk BIM 360 Products<p>So I’ve been pretty quiet on the blog front this year (that’s kind-of an understatement!). It’s not that I don’t have much to share, but it seems like every day passes way too fast.</p> <p>The main reason though for my practical non-existence in the blogging world is that in the summer of 2013, I started the trek down the BIM 360 road with Glue and Field. I was one of only a select few that were chosen by Autodesk to partake in being trained on the BIM 360 products in the US. The BIM 360 products are not like the majority of the Autodesk software and Autodesk didn’t release these products to all of the channel partners/resellers. So much of my time that I have “free” (time that I’m not spending with customers around a handful of products), I’ve been diving into BIM 360 Glue and Field</p> <p>I’ve tossed around how I wanted to share my knowledge around BIM 360 Glue and Field. The biggest question I was asking myself was whether or not I wanted to keep this blog just Navisworks info or if I wanted to turn it into more of a Navis/BIM 360 blog. Well, I’m going to do the latter. With both product lines having some similarities/differences and being able to work together, I figured it was best to keep the info all in one place.</p> <p>So in the near future, you’re going to start to see BIM 360 information along with Navisworks on this blog. Hopefully I can also start to clear the air a little on the many questions people have around BIM 360 Glue and Field compared to Navisworks…specifically around Glue vs Manage.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-84654080192104423352014-01-29T12:54:00.001-06:002014-01-29T12:54:57.002-06:00Navisworks 2014 Hotfix 3<p>Autodesk just released a new Hotfix for Navisworks (all flavors) and it fixes/resolves the following issues…</p> <p>- Problems resulting from operations that involve clicking in the first column of the Clash results grid, such as collapsing/expanding groups, dragging clashes and resizing columns. <br>- Issues with material and transparency inconsistency when importing FBX files. <br>- Issues with the automatic selection of the correct Rendering engine (Presenter or Autodesk)</p> <p><em>Note: it is not necessary to have installed Navisworks 2014 Service Pack 1 before installing this hotfix</em></p> <p>You can download the appropriate version <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=22876836&linkID=10382102" target="_blank">HERE</a></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-68678617713684194322013-06-28T14:12:00.001-05:002013-06-28T14:15:34.922-05:00Navisworks File viewable in Glue Offline<p>I’m sure by now many of you have heard of <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/products/bim-360-glue/overview" target="_blank">Autodesk’s BIM 360 Glue</a> service. Since it’s a cloud based service, you need WiFi (or Data) access to be able to access the cloud and the models you’ve “Glued”. It’s also a paid-for service, which many people do not have…yet. </p> <p>However, you can <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-bim-360-glue/id554629830?mt=8" target="_blank">download the iPad app</a> (yes, it’s iOS only at this point) and still view Navisworks models on your iPad with Glue! You don’t’ need to upload anything to the web/cloud, its all local and done through iTunes. Here’s a little sample video showing the process (no audio)…</p> <div id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:85af1a40-caff-4b95-a1bc-e909907a89bb" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px"><div id="5d01e137-5ec5-4e67-819d-4b4c9ffa52e1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-NMKNC4uQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-s79llsfxhK0/Uc3gChO2LdI/AAAAAAAAAr8/UNp7ds2NBig/video289a6e1d8071%25255B28%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5d01e137-5ec5-4e67-819d-4b4c9ffa52e1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"499\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/o4-NMKNC4uQ?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/o4-NMKNC4uQ?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:499px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Navisworks file on iPad with BIM 360 Glue</div></div> <p>So for those of you looking to view your Navisworks files on an iPad, this is probably the best way to do it for FREE!</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-42143990598393519572013-04-04T08:35:00.000-05:002013-04-04T08:35:00.135-05:00Navisworks 2014 gets QTO<p>As you’ve probably seen in the new features list, whether it was <a href="http://navis-infocenter.blogspot.com/2013/03/whats-new-in-navisworks-2014.html" target="_blank">here</a> on my blog or over at <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/" target="_blank">Beyond Design</a>, Quantification has come to Navisworks 2014. I’ll be doing posts on the new Quantification features in the future, but wanted to get one thing out that I know is going to be asked…does it only come with Manage?</p> <p><strong><font size="5">NO!</font></strong> </p> <p>Whether you use Simulate or Manage, you will have the ability to use the Quantification tools within Navisworks 2014.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-69904494774604379092013-04-03T15:12:00.001-05:002013-04-03T15:12:24.047-05:00System Requirements for Autodesk Navisworks 2014<h5><font style="font-weight: normal">Below is a grab of the System Requirements for Navisworks 2014…this pertains to Simulate and Manage. </font></h5> <h5><em><font color="#ff0000">Please, please note that Windows XP is NOT listed!! If you are still using XP (or even Vista, which I rarely run into), you’re going to need to upgrade your OS! Not to say that Navisworks won’t install or run, but any issues relating back to the OS will not be supported. Also note that Windows 8 32bit is not listed…meaning it’s not supported. Autodesk has a page dedicated to OS compatibility for Navisworks, all versions - </font></em><font style="font-weight: normal" size="2"><a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15407756&linkID=10382101" target="_blank">Operating system compatibility for Autodesk Navisworks</a></font></h5> <h5>System Requirements for Autodesk Navisworks 2014</h5> <ul> <li>Windows® 8 (64-bit) or Windows® 7 (32 or 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition (recommended) (Service Pack 1) <li>Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology <li>512 MB RAM (2 GB or greater recommended) <li>10 GB free disk space for installation <li>Direct3D 9® and OpenGL® capable graphics card with Shader Model 2 (minimum) <li>1,280 x 800 VGA display with true color (1,920 x 1,080 monitor and 32-bit video display adapter recommended) <li>Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device <li>Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later web browser</li></ul> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-37788239216788674452013-03-26T12:51:00.001-05:002013-03-26T13:22:59.359-05:00What’s New in Navisworks 2014<p>Ah, the spring time (in the United States anyway) when the weather starts to change (unless you live in the Midwest like me, still feels like December!) and Autodesk rolls out the new products. Navisworks has some nice features in 2014 and this should be an interesting year talking to customers about the new features.</p> <p>The guys over at <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/" target="_blank">Beyond Design</a> put together a nice little list of the key features in Navisworks 2014. You can read their post <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2013/03/whats-new-in-navisworks-2014.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p> <p>Taking a step away from the key features they show, here’s a little list <em>(not a complete list)</em> of some of the other things you’ll see in Navisworks 2014…</p> <ul> <li><strong>Timeliner Selection Set Export</strong> <ul> <li>This is interesting…you can export your Task List to create a folder of Selection Sets that match the name of the Tasks. The Sets are then automatically attached to the Tasks. At this point, you’d need to add items to each Selection Set. <ul> <li><em>This should make attaching/mapping objects to tasks much, much easier!</em></li></ul></li></ul> <li><strong>Timeliner Format Update</strong> <ul> <li>You can now utilize Primavera P6 v8.2! (this was a big issue with 2013)</li></ul> <li><strong>Preserve Clash Highlighting in Viewpoints reporting</strong> <ul> <li>A feature that <a href="http://navis-infocenter.blogspot.com/2013/01/hidden-update-in-service-pack-2.html" target="_blank">sneaked into 2013 via SP2</a> was the ability to save your Clash Report to Viewpoints and keep the visual fidelity of the Clash View. Well, it’s native in 2014! You even have the ability to choose if you want that functionality via a checkbox. It even keeps the Redlines! (which it didn’t in 2013)</li></ul> <li><strong>Clash Elements Different Colors</strong> <ul> <li>Basically, you can set Item 1 and Item 2 to be different colors instead of them both using the Clash Status color.</li></ul> <li><strong>Clash Comments</strong> <ul> <li>The Clash Results now include a column that shows if a Clash has a Comment and how many. </li></ul> <li><strong>Clash Filters</strong> <ul> <li>You can filter the Clashes to only show what you currently have selected. New for 2014… <ul> <li>Exclusive – if you have the 2 clashing elements selected, this will show clash results where both of the clashing items are included in your current item selection. <li>Inclusive – if you have 1 or 2 clashing elements selected, this filter will show clash results where one or both or the clashing items are included in your current item selection. <ul> <li><em><font size="2">I can see people using the Inclusive quite a bit.</font></em></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <li><strong>Clash Report Filter</strong> <ul> <li>If you have a Filter applied to your Clash Results, you can export a Report of just the Filtered Clashes.</li></ul> <li><strong>Clash Isolation Settings</strong> <ul> <li>The Dim Other and Hide Other are no longer part of a drop-down menu, they are buttons next to each other.</li></ul> <li><strong>Measurements</strong> (Nice enhancements here!) <ul> <li>We can now do measurements were we can lock the X, Y or Z axis from the first point selected. <li>We can now measure in a Perpendicular (huge!) or Parallel alignment to the surface of an object. <ul> <li>I’ll definitely be doing a video for this one soon!</li></ul> <li>We also get some new visual cues when selecting a Face (small rectangle behind the cursor), Edge (small line behind the cursor) or Point (an “X” behind the cursor). <ul> <li>The visual cues replace the cursor changing, the cursor now keep a “+” as it’s graphic.</li></ul></li></ul> <li><strong>Rendering</strong> <ul> <li>Wow, there sooooo much to this now that we can use the same Materials as the other Autodesk software and the same rendering engine. <li>We also get the Ray Trace tool that was introduced in Revit 2013.</li></ul> <li><strong>Sectioning</strong> <ul> <li>You can now “limit” your sectioning planes/box to elements you have selected. <ul> <li>Oh, this is nice when you want to show a section cut and the limit to be 1st Floor to 2nd Floor!</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <p>So throw list together with what the guys and Beyond Design have (Quantification, Rendering, ReCap (point clouds), etc.) and that’s pretty much what your going to see in Navisworks 2014!</p> <p><em>Oh, I should note…Clash items listed above are only available in Navisworks Manage, everything else will be available in Navisworks Simulate as well.</em></p> <p>More to come soon once I get Navisworks loaded on my main computer <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" alt="Smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7DqJ2q68AjI/UVHgKKIYN9I/AAAAAAAAAq0/BUEM7hgcqJo/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800"></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-20775734331704856962013-02-27T15:44:00.001-06:002013-02-27T15:44:22.229-06:00Reveal Hidden Elements for Navisworks<p>This is more of a “wish-list” item that came up during a discussion with a customer training I was doing. </p> <p>The question always comes up…”how do you turn on specific elements that have been hidden?” Well, the answer(s) isn’t the best…you can look through the Selection Tree and look for elements that have been “grayed” out, Unhide All (then re-hide the objects that are supposed to stay hidden), make the object/objects a Selection Set so you can manage them a little easier, etc. Basically, there isn’t a good way.</p> <p>One of the users brought up the idea of having a “Reveal Hidden Elements” mode like Revit has, which is a great idea. Here’s to hoping that Navisworks 2014 (whenever that comes out) will have such a “feature” to help with object visibility.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-34999320972804508222013-01-28T14:05:00.001-06:002013-01-28T14:06:21.230-06:00Hidden Update in Service Pack 2<p>Well, at least it seems like it was a hidden update to me. What I’m talking about is a feature that people have been asking about for a while…being able to save a Clash Report to Viewpoints in Navisworks. </p> <p>Technically it’s not a new feature, you’ve been able to do it for as long as I can remember. But, it’s never REALLY worked. The resulting saved Viewpoints never kept the “visual” settings when looking at the Clashes in the Results tab of the Clash Detection panel. So the results were really just the camera position with elements in their native color and none of the elements in front of the clash hidden or transparent or wireframed or etc.</p> <p>Here’s the Clash Results Viewpoint (while having the Results tab “active” in Clash Detection)…</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9fiVA7wtILo/UQbZ4ppmOUI/AAAAAAAAApA/xDXCvP7Jno0/s1600-h/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport%25255B6%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Audubon Center-ClashReport" border="0" alt="Audubon Center-ClashReport" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1fwbB4x2cZI/UQbZ6RGS-8I/AAAAAAAAApE/YAewOQnVHuU/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="479" height="331"></a></p> <p>Prior to Navisworks 2013 Service Pack/Update 2, this was the result of the “Saved Viewpoint” when the Report was exported to Viewpoints…</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-u3VbJZNrjCk/UQbZ7CFuOsI/AAAAAAAAApI/str0PNeAffw/s1600-h/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport-VP_PreSP2%25255B5%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Audubon Center-ClashReport-VP_PreSP2" border="0" alt="Audubon Center-ClashReport-VP_PreSP2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-n7zf5WHdItA/UQbZ7pQ2tiI/AAAAAAAAApM/dZvDpK386KA/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport-VP_PreSP2_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="479" height="222"></a></p> <p>And now, here’s what you get with Navisworks 2013 after Service Pack/Update 2 is installed…</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-WSKpsWci4dw/UQbZ8TPLEcI/AAAAAAAAApQ/WHGPloGVZfE/s1600-h/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport-VP_PostSP2%25255B6%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Audubon Center-ClashReport-VP_PostSP2" border="0" alt="Audubon Center-ClashReport-VP_PostSP2" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-699M6hFtXWY/UQbZ8rkEmbI/AAAAAAAAApU/buwVjK-RvsA/Audubon%252520Center-ClashReport-VP_PostSP2_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="479" height="222"></a></p> <p>FINALLY, the report exported to “Viewpoints” actually shows the same view settings as the Results tab does! This means that when the NWF is Published to a NWD, someone with Freedom (or Simulate) can actually review clashes!</p> <p>But, there is a bit of bad news. It appears that any Redlines that are created on the Clash do not come through. However, if you create a Redline Tag, the associated Comment WILL come through and be available in the Viewpoint…which doesn’t really help since you can’t see the Redline Tag. Also, if you add a Comment and/or an Assign(ment), those will also come through and be available in the Viewpoint.</p> <p>I’m glad to see the progress has been made to make the Viewpoints Report capture the Results visual settings. Hopefully we’ll see some more improvement to also capture the Redline information.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-39819851107275106152012-09-19T15:09:00.001-05:002012-09-19T15:09:57.618-05:00Navisworks 2013 Service Pack 2<p>Looks like another service pack for the Navisworks family of products was recently released (short list of updates via <a href="http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2012/09/service-pack-2-now-available-for-autodesk-navisworks-2013.html" target="_blank">Beyond Design</a>)…</p> <ul> <li><font size="2">Performance issues when working with a large volume of selection and search sets. </font> <li><font size="2">Issue where some commands appear disabled after dragging a selection set to a folder. </font> <li><font size="2">Show command didn't work at the folder level for sets hidden in folders. </font> <li><font size="2">Crash when trying to drag a set into a folder. </font> <li><font size="2">Area/Volume properties from Revit Drawings not available. </font> <li><font size="2">Inventor models are rotated at 90-degrees. </font> <li><font size="2">A number of unexpected crashes in Clash Detective </font> <li><font size="2">Unhide All taking much longer when Clash Detective is open. </font> <li><font size="2">Not possible to rename a Clash result after a drag and drop. </font> <li><font size="2">Clash groups expand unexpectedly. </font> <li><font size="2">Renaming results in the Clash results grid performance issues. </font> <li><font size="2">Resolved a performance issue where loading a model is extremely slow when Timeliner is open. </font> <li><font size="2">2D measurement start, end and difference values are incorrect. </font> <li><font size="2">Cancelling or closing the options editor using keyboard shortcuts retains options. </font> <li><font size="2">Cinepak Codec for 64 bit is now available. </font> <li><font size="2">CSV export from Selection Inspector now available</font></li></ul> <p><font size="2">As always, make sure you read the <a href="http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/Autodesk_Navisworks_2013_Service_Pack_2_Readme.pdf" target="_blank">Readme</a> file before installing…the Readme also includes a full list of updates. </font></p> <p><font size="2">Also make sure you download and install the appropriate version (32bit vs 64bit, as well as Freedom, Simulate or Manage). Please notice there is also a download for the Navisworks Exporters, so you’ll want to install that as well if you are exporting files to NWC from (for example) AutoCAD or Revit.</font></p> <h3><font size="3">Download - <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=20458011&linkID=10382102" target="_blank">Autodesk ® Navisworks ® 2013 Service Pack 2</a></font></h3> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-16347341363295676482012-09-17T10:04:00.001-05:002012-09-17T10:04:03.370-05:00Timeliner with Primavera Web Service<p>I recently had an issue come through regarding the use of the Primavera P6 Web Service with Navisworks 2013 and it not working. The users could access the P6 service outside of Navisworks, but when they attempted to connect to the P6 service through Timeliner, it would error out and not connect/download the content. The error message was an “Unexpected wrapper element” with some locations called out.</p> <p>The issue came down to the fact that they were using P6 V8.1…which Navisworks doesn’t support. I verified with Autodesk support what is supported with Navisworks 2013…</p> <p><strong>Product:</strong> Engineering and Construction: 6.2.1 (SP4 Hot Fix 1), 7.0 (SP4), 8.2<br><font size="2">Notes:</font> <em><font size="2">Requires Primavera v6, 7 or 8 Engineering and Construction to be installed locally or remotely, along with the corresponding version of the Primavera SDK. TimeLiner connects to the Primavera database via an ODBC data source link.</font></em></p> <p><strong>Product:</strong> Primavera P6 Web Services: 6.2.1 (SP1 Hot Fix 1), 7.0 (SP1 Hot Fix 1), 8.0<br><font size="2">Notes: <em>Requires Primavera P6 v6, 7 or 8 Web Services installed within a suitable Web Application Server such as Oracle Web Logic or JBoss on the same machine as your P6 database.</em></font></p> <p>So if you have plans to upgrade your Primavera services and use it in conjunction with Navisworks, you may want to hold off. </p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-90254348605512883242012-06-08T16:40:00.001-05:002012-06-08T16:40:30.499-05:00Autodesk Acquires Vela Systems<p>This should be interesting to see where Autodesk takes this. Vela already has Navisworks files working on the mobile devices and I’m hoping this means even more integration in the future!</p> <p>Press release can be read <a href="http://www.velasystems.com/news-and-events/press-releases/06-08-2012/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-76955768115368663782012-05-29T15:38:00.001-05:002012-05-29T15:38:19.781-05:00Navisworks Journal Files<p>A little while back, I was going through removing my 2013 “stand-alone” products so I could install the Building Design Suite Ultimate 2013 and ran across a folder I didn’t remember seeing in 2012…a Rx folder within an Autodesk folder in my Users directory. Huh, so I opened it up and there lies a Navisworks 2013 folder…with a Journals folder within it. Now this is interesting…are they somehow introducing Journal Files for Navisworks like Revit has??</p> <p>Well, no, not really. From what I can tell, a Journal file is generated when you Append/Open a Revit file in Navisworks 2013. This Journal file appears to be (my opinion anyway) a “record” of what Navisworks is doing in the background when reading the RVT and creating the NWC. </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aEJ-l3VD6F4/T8UzuWD6zQI/AAAAAAAAAm8/CduL3v-Yy8o/s1600-h/SNAGHTML10318364.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="SNAGHTML1031836" border="0" alt="SNAGHTML1031836" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7SSZB1dolhg/T8Uzu4v76-I/AAAAAAAAAnE/9IAyFLSBoCQ/SNAGHTML1031836_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="517" height="98"></a></p> <p>And in case you are curious or want to investigate a Revit Journal file that was created when you Appended a Revit file into Navisworks, this is the location it’s located in (Windows 7)…</p> <p>C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Rx\Navisworks 2013\Journals</p> <p>So if you are having issues when loading/Appending in a Revit file into Navisworks 2013, you may want to check out the Journal file to see if there is anything in the Journal that’s pointing to the problem.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-79995815329395012722012-05-22T11:09:00.001-05:002012-05-22T11:09:32.019-05:00Vault and Navisworks 2013<p>Here are just a couple of the changes that I noticed with Navisworks and Vault 2013…</p> <p>Yay, we can finally Append from Vault ALL of the file types for Navisworks!</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ek8y-E35Mzc/T7u6MypBulI/AAAAAAAAAmI/SC8ZaHyTFtw/s1600-h/SNAGHTMLac50ff4.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="SNAGHTMLac50ff" border="0" alt="SNAGHTMLac50ff" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0t9LCMOOUPs/T7u6NKQY-5I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/0SDG9FpiC4w/SNAGHTMLac50ff_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="200" height="375"></a></p> <p>Navisworks 2013 also now includes a Vault Browser window that will show which files are currently Appended into Navisworks, just like the Selection Tree, but will give some indicators that are shown in Vault. It will also show which files have been Appended from Vault vs a “regular” Append.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1F2S_1EivEI/T7u6Nj6uPDI/AAAAAAAAAmY/AqPu19n-2Uc/s1600-h/image5.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sdGeDtn-WBY/T7u6OBmtOTI/AAAAAAAAAmg/j-zmDArYsOY/image_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="228" height="244"></a></p> <p>The circles that are in front of the file names are the indicators…these will show a few different things. In the image above, the + sign is indicating that the file is not in Vault. The empty circle is indicating that this file is in Vault as was Appended via the Vault tools. There are more, which get’s into more of the Vault functionality…which is a whole other discussion. Anyway, here’s what the Vault Browser would look like with the files in Vault, Appended from Vault and working on a “checked out” NWF file…</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qO7u0ipfvW4/T7u6OdsFk9I/AAAAAAAAAmo/M7SjNE2qgOk/s1600-h/image2.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2BBIb0kuHfg/T7u6O-laOeI/AAAAAAAAAmw/2uzoldsqqzI/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800" width="228" height="244"></a></p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-16467970449542020412012-04-20T10:00:00.000-05:002012-04-20T10:00:05.100-05:00Update to Switchback with Revit 2013<p>I’ve posted a couple times now about the Switchback feature in Navisworks and how it works with Revit. Well, there is an update to the functionality for the 2013 release in a good way!</p> <p>When you now use Switchback with Revit 2013, the camera view that you are using in Navisworks 2013 is now created in Revit…literally. When in Revit, you’ll be directed to a new 3D View called “Navisworks”. The nice thing is you don’t have to create this view, it happens automatically. So if you rename or remove the “Navisworks” 3D View and use Switchback again, you’re going to get another “Navisworks” 3D View in Revit. This is much, much better that what we got in 2012 where the camera didn’t change much in Revit, or maybe just went to a plan view.</p> <p>Another change is that the object that you’ve selected in Navisworks 2013 to run Switchback with will <strong>now actually be selected</strong> in Revit 2013 and show the Properties! Revit 2012 almost had it, but you had to do a few things to make the properties actually show even though the object was “selected”.</p> <p>One thing though with the object selection potion of this…your results are going to vary depending on what you have your “Selection Resolution” set to. When I first tried it, I had the “Selection Resolution” set to “Last Object” and the object selection in Revit wasn’t showing. So I went back and tried the other options for “Selection Resolution” and the one that you want to use is <strong>“First Object”</strong>. By using this “Resolution”, the Revit object will be highlighted and the properties of the object will be available.</p> <p>Here’s a little video showing the new functionality of the Switchback feature for the 2013 products…</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:06d20014-33f3-4802-9925-2caa4d1ba936" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="b6f8df7e-f630-4a06-a05d-a904352cd62d" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcQPGc1uI74" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EFhceZ58aBI/T5CXnN51FxI/AAAAAAAAAlg/QiEKXY_gi80/videobb44d50cecae%25255B18%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('b6f8df7e-f630-4a06-a05d-a904352cd62d'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"489\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/OcQPGc1uI74?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/OcQPGc1uI74?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"489\" height=\"302\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:489px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Navisworks and Revit 2013 Switchback</div></div> <p>One thing to note for those using Revit 2012 and Navisworks 2013…you have the ability to use Navisworks Switchback 2013 in Revit 2012, but the functionality of the Switchback will be the 2012 functionality.</p> Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196691008955862684.post-3356577203603030212012-04-19T14:28:00.001-05:002012-04-25T16:36:38.292-05:00Navisworks 2013 Selection Tree Changes-Similarities<p>With the ability to now read Revit files, another change with Revit files is how they are organized in the Navisworks Selection Tree. In the screen shot below, I’ve laid out some examples to illustrate the differences from 2012 Revit based NWC files (2012 and 2013 NWC), Revit 2013 NWC and Revit RVT files…</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-V81jpLoBt20/T5BnXWUXaaI/AAAAAAAAAlA/6BDS18HM2jc/s1600-h/image%25255B1%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-L6dOwZAL4v0/T5BnXwUWV-I/AAAAAAAAAlI/2t9KXM2iqBI/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="194" height="381"></a></p> <p>As you can see, Revit 2012 will export to a 2013 NWC file, but the organization stays the same as if it was exported to a 2012 NWC file. So the new organization (of Level->Family Category->Family Type->Instance) is only going to show up when a RVT file is read directly into Navisworks, or you generate a NWC file from Revit 2013.</p> <p>One thing to note with the above image, it doesn’t show an Append 2012 RVT file (oops). I can say that it will show just like a Revit 2013 RVT file as shown below…</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-GG6G-dZ4Zeo/T5BnYbBA9iI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/6UqG7cdPRcU/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-31wDjtfX0Lc/T5BnYr9W2NI/AAAAAAAAAlY/60PC-nNlVVo/image_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="192" height="138"></a></p> <p><font style="background-color: #ffffff"></font><font style="" color="#ff0000"><strong><em><u>UPDATE:</u></em></strong></font><font style="background-color: #ffffff"></font></p> <p>Based on a comment I received, I didn’t notice the 2013 RVT and NWC files were named the same. Since I didn’t refresh the NWF, it probably didn’t matter. But to be safe, I re-appended the files with different names and the RVT and NWC show the same “structure” of Level, Category, etc. I did however notice that the exported NWC breaks down the Instances a step further than the RVT. Here’s the screen shot…</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TshurYFcwRg/T5huYtGCIFI/AAAAAAAAAlo/pkL79BYKB2k/s1600-h/clip_image002%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="clip_image002" border="0" alt="clip_image002" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sYdDkQUjt9w/T5huZH-NNsI/AAAAAAAAAlw/sZ998UO3SRg/clip_image002_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="198" height="309"></a> <p>I didn’t look that closely at the tree before to notice this difference with 2013 Exported NWC’s and RVT’s. The NWC Export Settings and Revit File Reader options are the same, so this is something I want to look into further… Dwane Lindseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04103724351762050322noreply@blogger.com2