Navisworks: Clash Detection
2h 25mIntermediate2020-05-11
Authors

Brian Myers
VDC Design Office Lead at Jacobs
Course details
Navisworks is an industry-standard program for performing the coordination of models for architecture, engineering, and construction projects. This coordination can include communicating design issues to the project team, finding your own design problems, and documenting issues so that they can be talked about and, if required, fixed. The Clash Detective—one of the most powerful tools in the Navisworks Manage version of the software—allows for clash detection, which involves finding when different objects hit or touch each other in the design (and need to be examined for potential correction). In this course, Brian Myers reviews the clash detection functionality in Navisworks Manage, as well as the process of performing clash detection. Discover how to create various categories for your clash tests, set up rules to refine your clash detection results, run clash tests, create custom views and reports, and more.
Skills covered
NavisworksBIMAutodeskAECDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Catch critical problems with Navisworks
- Using the exercise files
Essentials
- Navisworks types
- Creating a project
- Using workspaces
- Appending files
- Saving files
- Basic navigation
- Moving models
Clash Test Setup
- Interface
- Clash test categories
- Import and export clash tests
- Rules
- Tolerances
Selection
- Selection Tree
- Find Items window
- Manual selection
- Sets
Clash Detection
- Running a clash test
- Running multiple clash tests
- Clash groups
- Clash status
- Updating the clash test
- Clear resolved clashes
- Viewing the clashes
- Display settings
- Save viewpoints
- Redline
- Comments
Reports
- Setting report contents
- Output settings
Distribution
- Saving the project
- Publishing the project
- Printing a view
Conclusion
- Next steps