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Navisworks Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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.

Navisworks spans the design and the construction worlds. This course was designed for residents of both: construction personnel, architects, and engineers who are looking to integrate design with the as-built world. Join instructor Eric Wing as he shows how to use Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate to gain control and get a holistic view of your projects. Eric shows how to manage models, clash the models for interference, and virtually construct a building using a construction timeline. He also shows how to create material takeoffs and conduct interactive walk-throughs. On the surface, Navisworks might look like just a file viewer, but with this course, you can learn things about its analysis and simulation tools that would be either impossible or impossibly expensive any other way.

Syllabus

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
  • Analyzing the clash test results
  • 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

Taught by

Eric Wing

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