Navisworks Essential Training (2019)

Course details

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.

Learning objectives
Appending and merging models
Looking around your model
Working with viewpoints
Finding the shortest distance between objects
Selecting, hiding, and animating objects
Adding links to objects
Creating a clash test and setting rules
Adding a timeline with the TimeLiner
Creating a script
Adding lights and materials

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - An introduction to Navisworks

1. The Navisworks File System

02 - The three Navisworks versions
03 - Navisworks file types
04 - Opening files directly
05 - Working with Revit directly
06 - Exporting from Revit to Navisworks
07 - Appending and merging models

2. Navigating in a Model

08 - Looking at the navigation bar
09 - Walking through your model
10 - Rotating your model with the Orbit tool
11 - Looking around your model
12 - Using the Gravity tool
13 - Settings

3. Working with Viewpoints

14 - Saving a viewpoint
15 - Choosing render styles
16 - Changing the background
17 - Slicing your model using sectioning
18 - Getting rid of lines and text

4. The Review Tab

19 - Getting measurements
20 - Finding the shortest distance between objects
21 - Creating redlines

5. Dealing with Objects

22 - Selecting objects
23 - Overriding color, transparency, and a transform
24 - Hiding and turning on objects
25 - Moving items
26 - Rotating items
27 - Scaling items
28 - Adding links
29 - Viewing properties and adding fields
30 - Switching back to Revit
31 - Holding objects

6. Sorting and Grouping

32 - The Selection Tree
33 - Finding items
34 - Saving selections as a set
35 - Using the Quick Find tool
36 - Using the Selection Inspector

7. Clash Detection

37 - Creating a clash test and setting rules
38 - Selecting objects to clash and adding clearances
39 - Analyzing the clash test results
40 - Resolving and reducing clashes
41 - Grouping and assigning clashes
42 - Creating reports - Viewpoints
43 - Creating reports - HTML

8. The TimeLiner

44 - Configuring appearances
45 - Creating tasks
46 - Adding selection sets to a task
47 - Adding multiple tasks and running the movie
48 - Simulating settings
49 - Exporting the TimeLiner
50 - Adding a data source
51 - Creating a simulation for the TimeLiner

9. Quantification

52 - Setting up your workbook
53 - Dragging items to the workbook
54 - Taking off the entire model
55 - Exporting the takeoff

10. Presenting, Animating, and Exporting

56 - Animating saved viewpoints
57 - Animating objects
58 - Creating a script

11. Rendering

59 - Adding lights
60 - Adding materials
61 - Adjusting the sun
62 - Rendering
63 - Appearance Profiler