NavisWorks Essentials

Navisworks allows users to open and combine 3D models, navigate around them in real-time and review the model using a set of tools including comments, redlining, viewpoint, and measurements. A selection of plug-ins enhances the package adding interference detection, 4D time simulation, photorealistic rendering and PDF-like publishing.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Getting Started

• Lesson: Getting Started with Autodesk Navisworks
• Lesson: Publishing, Merging, Refreshing, and Emailing Files
• Lesson: Selection Tree and Selecting Objects

Chapter 2: 3D Model Review

• Lesson: Hiding Objects and Overriding Materials
• Lesson: Object Properties
• Lesson: Measuring and Moving Objects
• Lesson: Selection and Search Sets
• Lesson: Viewpoints
• Lesson: Comments, Redlining, and Tabs
• Lesson: Animations
• Lesson: Sectioning
• Lesson: Links Lesson: Comparing Models
• Lesson: Navisworks Real-Time Rendering
• Lesson: Switchback

Chapter 3: TimeLiner

• Lesson: TimeLiner Overview
• Lesson: Creating Tasks
• Lesson: Gantt View
• Lesson: Import Tasks from External Project File
• Lesson: Configuring and Defining a Simulation
• Lesson: Simulation Export

Chapter 4: Animator

• Lesson: Animator Overview
• Lesson: Creating a Basic Animation
• Lesson: Manipulate Geometry Objects in an Animation Set
• Lesson: Section Plane Sets
• Lesson: Controlling Animation Scene Playback

Chapter 5: Scripter

• Lesson: Scripter Overview
• Lesson: Creating and Managing Scripts
• Lesson: Creating and Configuring Events
• Lesson: Creating and Configuring Actions

Chapter 6: Quantification

• Lesson: Quantification Overview
• Lesson: Setting up a Quantification Project
• Lesson: Item and Resource Management
• Lesson: 3D Model and Virtual Takeoff
• Lesson: Managing Takeoff Data
• Lesson: 2D Takeoffs
• Lesson: Analyzing Changes
• Lesson: Exporting Takeoff Data

Chapter 7: Clash Detective

• Lesson: Clash Detective Overview
• Lesson: Clash Results
• Lesson: Clash Test Reporting
• Lesson: Working with Clash Tests
• Lesson: Audit Checks
• Lesson: Exporting and Importing Clash Tests
• Lesson: Laser Scan Data Clashing
• Lesson: Method for Testing and Resolving Clashes
• Lesson: Time-Based Clashing

Chapter 8: Autodesk Rendering

• Lesson: Autodesk Rendering Overview
• Lesson: Adding Materials to a Model
• Lesson: Creating and Editing Materials
• Lesson: Material Mapping
• Lesson: Lighting Lesson: Sun and Sky Lights
• Lesson: Exposure Control
• Lesson: Ground Planes
• Lesson: Photorealistic Rendering