Autodesk NAVISWORKS 2010 User manual

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Navisworks®
Experience the project,
before it is real.

You Can All Get Along
The Autodesk Navisworks software family consists
of four products to help you and your extended
teams experience enhanced control, and use existing
D design data to gain insight and predictability to
improve productivity and quality on even your most
complex projects.
Autodesk®Navisworks®Manage software
is the comprehensive review solution used
by design and construction management
professionals for smooth-running projects.
Navisworks Manage combines precise fault-
finding analysis and interference management
together with dynamic D project schedule
simulation and photorealistic visualization.
Autodesk®Navisworks®Simulate software
oers precise replication of design intent and
modeling of D construction schedules, enabling
previsualization of construction projects. Virtually
experiencing your project in a visual context before
physical work begins enables more complete
evaluation and verification of the materials and
textures appropriate to your intended design.
Autodesk®Navisworks®Review software enables
whole-project real-time visualization and review
of various file formats regardless of file size.
Autodesk®Navisworks®Freedom software is
the free* viewer for files in Autodesk Navisworks
NWD and D DWFTM formats.
By enabling existing detailed D design
models to be aggregated and shared for
review between all project stakeholders,
Autodesk®Navisworks®solutions are at the
heart of your building information modeling
(BIM) workflow. BIM is the creation and use
of coordinated and computable information
about a construction project during and
beyond the design and build phase.
Autodesk Navisworks software applications
combine design data created by
applications—such as the AutoCAD and
Revit® families of products—with geometry
and information from other design tools that
can be reviewed in real-time as an entire
D project, in multiple file formats and
regardless of file size. Navisworks software
products provides stakeholders a whole-
project view for improving design decision
making, construction documentation, and
performance prediction and planning,
straight through to management and
operation of the facility.
Visualize and simulate to analyze your D design models
from multiple formats.

Autodesk Navisworks Manage
Coordinated, Consistent, Complete
Including all the functionality of both Autodesk
Navisworks Review software and Autodesk
Navisworks Simulate software with powerful
clash detection capabilities, Autodesk
Navisworks Manage software provides the
most comprehensive Navisworks design
review solution for your construction project.
Enabling consistent, coordinated, and complete
construction documentation, Navisworks Manage
streamlines workflow across your organization
and extended teams, helping to reduce waste,
increase eciency, and reduce change orders.
Navisworks Manage delivers real-time visualizations,
enabling walk-through and exploration of complex
D models and all the project information they
contain without the need for preprogrammed
animation or advanced hardware.
Through eective identification, inspection, and
reporting of potential interferences in a D project
model, Navisworks Manage reduces error-prone
manual checking. Navisworks Manage enables
users to check time and space coordination,
improving site and workflow planning. Control and
peace of mind are enhanced through advanced
analysis and coordination of D designs. Early fault
prediction and error recognition help to prevent
eventual, more costly, miscalculations. Combine
D data in multiple formats, no matter what
file size, into a comprehensive, realistic building
information model for viewing and analyzing all
digital information.
Autodesk Navisworks Manage combines precise
fault-finding with hard, soft, clearance, and time-
based clash management. Quickly review and
cross-check geometry created by competing D
design software. Maintain a complete and valuable
record of all interferences found throughout your
project. Check for time and space coordination
and greatly reduce workflow issues at the
planning stage. Point- and line-based clashing
enable coordination of a laser-scanned as-built
environment with the virtual model.
Autodesk Navisworks software solutions enable project
design and building professionals to unite their contributions
into a single, synchronized building model rich in information.
Autodesk Navisworks Simulate
Where Design Meets Deadline
Autodesk Navisworks Simulate software significantly
enhances the real-time visualization capabilities of
Autodesk Navisworks Review with easier creation of
images and animations, as well as dynamic linking of
existing D models and project schedules. Navisworks
Simulate helps design and building professionals share
and combine output for creation of clear, descriptive
content that demonstrates design intent, validates
decisions, and authenticates schedules.
At any time in the process, replicate entire
projects through photorealistic visualizations and
D construction schedules that both demonstrate
and explain design and build options. Navisworks
Simulate enables you to quickly apply or read
textures, materials, and lights to or from existing
D models. You can also apply RPC content to your
existing models.
Navisworks Simulate enables project stakeholders
to see the future results of their work through
interactive, realistic renderings and walk-throughs.
D simulations and object animations simulate
design intent, stimulate design ideas, and enable
exploration of every design possibility. In addition,
the software enables smooth, shared review at every
stage of the creative process, helping to reduce
errors, enhance quality, and save time and money.
Simulation in D enables better planning and
helps identify risk at the earliest possible
stage, reducing potential waste. By providing a
clear, common understanding of design intent,
construction plans, and current project status,
Navisworks Simulate demonstrates construction
schedules by linking D model data to project
schedules for fast D visualization.
Navisworks Simulate enables more complete
emulation of the appearance and construction
of your project. Experiencing your project before
it is real, at any time in the process, makes for
more accurate planning and less guesswork.
Autodesk Navisworks Review
Visualize, Explore, Experience
Autodesk Navisworks Review software extends
access to existing design data to enable real-time
visualization, exploration, and experience of D
projects before they are real. Accessible building
information models enable project stakeholders to
focus and collaborate more eectively, and provide
valuable information after the designing and
building is over. Dynamic navigation and an intuitive
project review toolkit improve understanding of
even the most complex D models.
Compatible with most major D design and laser
scan formats, Navisworks Review can quickly
combine D files into one shared virtual model,
enabling stakeholders to review geometry, object
information, and linked ODBC databases. Collision
detection, gravity, and a third-person view further
improve the realism of the Navisworks Review
experience. Quickly create and output animation
and viewpoints into still pictures or movie formats.
Cross-sectioning, markup, measurement, and text
overlay capabilities are also available, together
with the ability to play back content created in
Autodesk Navisworks Simulate.
Autodesk Navisworks Freedom
Freedom to View
All simulations and output saved in NWD format
using Navisworks Review, Navisworks Simulate,
or Navisworks Manage can be viewed with
Autodesk Navisworks Freedom, the free* viewer
that works just like it sounds. Navisworks Freedom
oers design professionals an invaluable means
of communication with compressed, secure, and
streamable project review files in NWD format.
A practical solution to streaming large CAD
models, NWD files require no model preparation,
third-party server hosting, setup time, or ongoing
costs. Files may also be viewed in D DWF format.
Eective collaboration is achieved through easier
communication of design intent, collaborative
reviews of stakeholder contributions, and sharing
of all results.
Work Together, Surge Ahead

Autodesk Navisworks solutions are
now crucial to everything we do.
—Andrew Manington
T5 Production Support Manager
British Airport Authority
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