Autodesk Navisworks BIM Platform Software for Construction

Learn how to export Revit files for Navisworks using the Navisworks exporter. Choose the correct version, configure element ids, and properties, set coordinates, and save as NWC or WF.

Explore Navisworks selection tools, from the default select control to window-based box selection, learn how to set resolution, toggle visibility, hide or lock items, and perform reverse or all selections.

Learn to create and manage selection sets and search sets in Autodesk Navisworks, using selection tools, rules, level-based queries, appearance profiler, and quick properties to efficiently isolate model elements.

Master viewing workflows in Autodesk Navisworks by using viewpoints to control camera options, perspective and orthographic views, lighting, visibility, wireframe and sectioning, and save and jump between custom viewpoints.

Manage saved viewpoints by creating folders, deleting viewpoints, and saving appearances while editing views, camera locations, and animation sequences to preview element visibility and color changes.

Navigate Navisworks review tools for measurements, annotations, and viewpoints, including point-to-point measurements, axis orientation and orthogonal checks, color-coded lines, and persistent comments and text within views.

Review view characteristics in Navisworks, including reference views and grid visibility to navigate the model. Export NWF, NWD, and NWC files, and share prints, images, or videos.

Explore clash types in Navisworks by running tests, adjusting distance thresholds to identify hard clashes, conservative clashes, clearance, and duplicates, and learn how to move elements to resolve overlaps.

Explore how to run a complete clash analysis in Navisworks by configuring rules, selection sets, and color-coded results to identify and report interferences.

Review and manage clashes by classifying types, prioritizing three critical spots, and solving by moving, modifying, or removing elements, with focus on structural versus piping for discussion in a meeting.

Mix all files to run clash tests across architecture, structure, piping, electrical, and low voltage. Create rules and hide ceilings to reduce clashes and improve project clarity.

Learn to set up a construction timeline in Navisworks, create and configure tasks, connect external files like Microsoft Project, and run a simulation with visibility and timing options.

Create and configure sets for foundations, framings, walls, and stairs, assign elements with precise floor levels and dates, and simulate the construction sequence in Navisworks.

Set up a Microsoft Project plan to model construction hierarchy in Navisworks, creating levels from foundations to floors, establishing precedences, and exporting simulation-ready task data.

Split the Revit model into task-specific parts using part creation and intersecting references, update levels from basement zero to level ten, and verify column and wall divisions without Dynamo.

Link a Navisworks BIM project with Microsoft Project using export tools and data sources to synchronize timelines, map simulation parameters to elements, and generate schedules for foundations, walls, and floors.

Explore how to customize Navisworks BIM simulations for construction, including overlays, time intervals, colors, fonts, active tasks, and animated viewpoints with cost tracking.

Explore how to compare actual start and finish against planned dates in Navisworks, color-code late appearances in purple and early appearances in yellow, and adjust settings to display differences.

Navigate the quantification workbook in Navisworks to generate model-based quantities using the sheet browser, resource catalog, and item catalog, with metric units and continuous foundations.

Organize and export quantities to Excel by separating metallic and concrete columns, renaming catalog items, and mapping descriptions from simulation to show per-task quantities.

Add cost animations to 4d simulations in Autodesk Navisworks, incorporating materials, labor, equipment, and subcontractor costs, using resources and data sources to calculate total costs and cost savings.

Learn to create and animate multiple objects in a 4d simulation with Autodesk Navisworks, applying keyframes, animation behavior, and loop or ping-pong options to visualize movement along the timeline.