Autodesk® Navisworks® Features
See how Autodesk® Navisworks® can help you to visualize your projects before it’s real.
Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage software is a comprehensive project review solution for design, engineering, and construction management professionals seeking powerful insight and predictability to improve productivity and quality. It provides all the tools required for smooth-running design and construction projects.
Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage adds precise fault-finding analysis and interference management to:
- Dynamic 4D project scheduling and photorealistic visualisation capabilities of Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate software
- Real-time visualisation and collaborative review capabilities of Autodesk® Navisworks® Review software
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Anticipate and Avoid Problems
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- Interference Detection enables clash tests against specified geometry to find and resolve conflicts.
- Point/Line Based Clashing provides checking of as-built laser scan data against 3D designs.
- SwitchBack opens the current clash in the original design software. (Compatible with AutoCAD® 2004 software and later or Microstation J and version 8.)
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- Audit Trail tracks the status of clashes as they are found and resolved.
- Export reports with results of clash tests including comments and screenshots.
- XML import/export enables sharing of clash scenarios with other Autodesk® Navisworks® users.
- Group clash results to deal with multiple clash results as a single issue.
- View clash in context to orient yourself and your clash results within the model.
- Make all non-clashing items transparent to make it easier to locate the clash within the model.
- Transition between clash results to maintain orientation within the project model.
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Schedule in 4D
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- 4D simulation links model geometry to times and dates for playback of construction or demolition sequences to verify building or demolition viability.
- Schedule Linking enables import of times, dates, and other task data from project management software.
- Set up planned and actual times to visualise deviations from the project schedule.
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- Export 4D simulations into a prerecorded .AVI animation.
- Customise task color and transparency, as well as overlay text.
- Import/export CSV support to export schedule modifications for use in other applications.
- Copy and paste dates.
- Attach selection to multiple tasks.
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Present Projects
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- Export photorealistic renderings into .AVI animations or still images.
- Benefit from more than 1,000 built-in materials.
- Fully customise and configure every render aspect, including materials, lights, backgrounds, and rendering styles.
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- Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC) enables easy addition of photographic imagery, such as adding people and trees to scenes.
- HDRI Lighting provides powerful rendering technology for smooth shadows and natural lighting.
- Environment Backgrounds enable easy addition of real-world background scenery.
- Real-time Shaders support OpenGL 2.0 shader language for real-time lighting and shadows.
- Light Scattering effect creates believable night-time imagery.
- Sketch Effects offer a variety of sketch-like, painterly effects.
- Support for real-world lighting intensity units (candela, lumen, lux, foot-candle) and photometric lighting files (.CIB, .CIE, .IES, and .LDT).
- Support for PNG Files with transparency to create your own transparent materials.
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Publish The Whole-Project To View
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- Publish to and store complete 3D models in a single distributable .NWD model file and 3D DWF™.
- Use the free* Autodesk® Navisworks® Freedom viewer to open any and all .NWD models.
- ActiveX control provides viewing of .NWD models from Internet page or within Microsoft® Office documents, including PowerPoint® presentations.
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- Powerful compression reduces file size by 70 percent or more compared to original design files.
- Files can be password-encrypted, time expired, made read-only, and they contain all authorship and copyright details.
- Store all review data together with your model.
- Embed or exclude object properties, including external databases read through DataTools.
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Review 3D Projects Regardless of File Size or Format
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- Measurements tools enable detailed measurement of distance, area, and angles.
- Store, organise, and share camera views of the design, and export into images or reports.
- Comment on viewpoints with fully searchable notes, including date-stamped audit trail.
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- Add mark-ups to viewpoints with advanced redlining tools.
- Add cross sections and section planes for close inspection of details.
- Record animated walk-throughs for real-time playback or export as prerecorded .AVI files.
- Use .NWF reference files on open models. The latest version of the CAD design is used, while all previous review data is maintained.
- Read intelligent data from the original design files and view it alongside the model.
- DataTools feature enables import of live data from external databases using SQL through ODBC, which can then be displayed together with the model.
- SwitchBack feature enables easy opening of the current model and viewpoint in the original design software.
- Automate tasks or extend functionality using the extensive COM API.
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Streamline Workflow
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- Supports all major 3D design and laser scan file formats.
- Streams large models and content intelligently from disk or Internet, enabling navigation around the design as model loads.
- Combines models, regardless of file format, into a single unified model.
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- Provides smooth, real-time navigation with a range of tools including Walk, Look Around, Zoom, Zoom Box, Pan, Orbit, Examine, Fly, and Turntable.
- Provides gravity, collision detection, and customizable third-person avatars. Enables navigation through models without moving through walls.
* Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user licence agreement that accompanies download of the software.
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