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Autodesk NavisWorks NavisWorks Manage - 2012 User Guide

Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012
User Guide
April 2011
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This User Guide was last updated on 11 April 2011.

Contents

Chapter 1 Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . . 1
What Is New in This Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to Get Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Find Information Using InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Overview of InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Search for Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Access Subscription Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Use Communication Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Save and Access Favorite Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Use the Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Specify InfoCenter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Get More Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Learn the Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
View the Product Readme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Join the Customer Involvement Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Prepare for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
System Requirements for Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . 30
Install Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Understand Administrative Permission
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Locate Your Autodesk Navisworks Serial Number and
Product Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Avoid Data Loss During Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Install Multiple or Bundled Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . 36
Install Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Launch Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
How to Launch Autodesk Navisworks in Another
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Add or Remove Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Repair Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 42
Uninstall Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 . . . . . . . . 42
Move to Autodesk Navisworks from a Previous Release . . . . . . 43
Install Autodesk Navisworks for Multiple Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Quick Start to Network Administration and Deployment . . . . . 44
Deployment Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Set Up Network Tools and Your License Server . . . . . . . . 50
Distribute the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Distribute an Autodesk Navisworks Product . . . . . . . . . 54
Set Up a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment . . . . . . . . 55
Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Your Deployment Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Create a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Modify a Deployment (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Point Users to the Administrative Image . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Uninstall an Autodesk Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installation Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
General Installation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs
to be updated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network
or network to stand-alone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
When performing a Typical installation, what gets
installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site
Folder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a
site and project basis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
How do I change which exporter plugins are
installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks? . . . . 75
When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing
it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my
system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Deployment Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a
deployment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Where should deployments be located? . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Where can I check if service packs are available for my
software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit
deployments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
What are information channels? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
What are additional deployment configuration
options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Licensing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
What is the difference between a stand-alone license and
a network license? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
What is the benefit to using a network licensed version
of the software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
What is Internet Explorer used for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Networking Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Where do I find my server name? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
If I choose to create a log file, what kind of information
does the log file contain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
What is an administrative image (MSI) file? . . . . . . . . . 82
What is the impact of selecting all products to be included
in the administrative image? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
How should I configure a network license server for a
firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Uninstall and Maintenance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
When adding or removing features, how can I tell what
features get installed by default? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding
or removing features? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
When should I reinstall the product instead of a
repair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my
system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 3 Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Start and Quit Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Automatically Save and Recover Autodesk Navisworks Files . . . . . . . 86
Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Parts of Autodesk Navisworks Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Application Button and Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Keytips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Classic User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Scene View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Dockable Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Undo/Redo Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Autodesk Navisworks Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Default Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Navigation with the Wheel Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Autodesk Navisworks Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Location Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Graphics System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Display Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Search Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Gizmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Chapter 4 Work with Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Native File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Compatible CAD Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Supported CAD File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Supported Laser Scan File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Use File Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
3DS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
ASCII Laser Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
CIS/2 File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
DWG/DXF File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Overview of Object Enablers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
DWF/DWFx File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
DGN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Faro Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
FBX File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
IFC File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
IGES File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Inventor File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
JTOpen File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Leica Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
MAN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Parasolid File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
PDS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Pro/ENGINEER File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Riegl Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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RVM File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
SAT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
SketchUp SKP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
STEP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
STL File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
VRML File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Z+F Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Use File Exporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
AutoCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Add the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Use the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
CAD Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Revit File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
MicroStation File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Load the MDL Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Export Files from the Key-In Command Line . . . . . . . . 202
Export Files from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Customize the DGN File Exporter Options . . . . . . . . . 204
Viz and Max File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
ArchiCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Manage Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Open Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Create Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Save and Rename Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Add Sheets/Models to the Currently Opened File . . . . . . 214
Project Browser Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Work with 2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Add Geometry and Metadata to the Current
Sheet/Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Complex Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Append Geometry and Metadata to the Current
Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Adjust Units and Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Refresh Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Merge Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Email Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Receive Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Use Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Command Line Options for Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . 236
View Scene Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Chapter 5 Explore Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Navigate a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
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Orientation in a 3D Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Product-Specific Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Navigation Bar Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
SteeringWheels Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Classic Navigation Modes and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Overview of ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
ViewCube Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Reorient the View of a Model with ViewCube . . . . . . . 277
Set the View Projection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Home View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Examine Individual Objects with ViewCube . . . . . . . . 283
Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Overview of Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Reposition and Reorient the Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . 285
Control the Display of Navigation Tools on the Navigation
Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Overview of SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Wheel Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
View Object Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Tour Building Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Full Navigation Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
2D Navigation Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
3Dconnexion 3D Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Set Camera Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Control the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Position and Focus Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Navigation Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Head-Up Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Reference Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Control the Realism of Your Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Crouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Third Person View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Chapter 6 Control Model Appearance and Render Quality . . . . . . . . 317
Control Model Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Select Render Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Full Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Shaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Wireframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
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Hidden Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Add Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Full Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Scene Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Head Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
No Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Select Background Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Adjust Displaying of Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Snap Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Control Render Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Use Culling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Make Objects Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Control Rendering of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Adjust Scene Rendering During Navigation . . . . . . . . . 331
Accelerate Display Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Adjust Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Stereo Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Chapter 7 Review Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Select Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Interactive Geometry Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Selection Tree Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Selection Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Set Selection Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Set Highlighting Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Hide Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Find Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Find Items Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Quick Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Find All Sheets and Models Containing the Selected Object . . . . . . 356
Find Items in Other Sheets and Models Window . . . . . . . . . 357
Create and Use Sets of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Sets Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Create and Manage Selection and Search Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Compare Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
External Database Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Manipulate Object Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Transform Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
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Change Object Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Reset to Original Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Measure Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Measure Tools Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Measuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Use Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Redline Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
View Redlines and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Tags Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Edit Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Edit Redlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Find Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Find Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Quick Find Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Find Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Manage Comment and Tag IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Link Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Display Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Customize Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Add Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Find and Follow Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Manage Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Quick Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
SwitchBack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Appearance Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Chapter 8 Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Create and Modify Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Overview of Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Saved Viewpoints Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Save Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Recall Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Organize Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Edit Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Default Viewpoint Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Share Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Enable and Use Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Customize Section Plane Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Move and Rotate Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Link Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Enable and Use Section Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
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Chapter 9 Record and Play Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Create and Edit Viewpoint Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Play Animations and Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Share Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Chapter 10 Work Within a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Collaborate Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Collaboration Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Chapter 11 Share Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Print Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Print Current Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Search Criteria Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Search Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
PDS Display Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
PDS Tag Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Viewpoints Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Clash Test Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Export Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
3D DWF/DWFx Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Google Earth KML Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Autodesk FBX Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Export Images and Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Export an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Export a Rendered Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Export an Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Piranesi EPix Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Current Search Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Search Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Viewpoints Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Viewpoints Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
TimeLiner CSV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Clash Test Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
PDS Tag Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Chapter 12 Animate Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Overview of the Animator Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Animator Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
The Animator Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
The Animator Tree View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
The Animator Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
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The Manual Entry Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Scripter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
The Scripter Tree View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
The Events View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
The Actions View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
The Properties View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Create Object Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Work with Animation Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Work with Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Add Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Update Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
Manipulate Geometry Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Work with Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Work with Section Plane Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Work with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Capture Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Edit Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Play Animation Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Add Interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Work with Animation Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Work with Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Work with Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Enable Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Chapter 13 Create Photorealistic Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Overview of the Presenter Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Presenter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Use the Presenter Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Photo-Realistic Scene Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Use Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Materials Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Apply and Remove Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Organize and Manage Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Edit Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Advanced Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Use Presenter Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Lighting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Add and Position Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Organize and Manage Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Edit Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Shadow Casting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Advanced Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Soft Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Physically Accurate Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Volumetric Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Image-based Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
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Use Presenter RPCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
RPC Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Use Presenter Rendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Effects Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Background Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Foreground Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Use Presenter Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Rendering Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Predefined Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Auto Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Use Presenter Texture Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Use Presenter Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Rules Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Predefined Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Custom Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
The Presenter Rules Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Chapter 14 Simulate Construction Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Overview of TimeLiner Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
TimeLiner Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Tasks Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Data Sources Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Configure Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Simulate Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
Choose TimeLiner Columns Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
TimeLiner Rules Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Field Selector Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
Refresh from Data Source Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
Simulation Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
Overlay Text Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Appearance Definitions Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
TimeLiner Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Create Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Edit Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Use Gantt Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Attach Tasks to Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Attach Tasks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Use Rules to Attach Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Validate Project Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Link to External Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Supported Scheduling Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
CSV Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Add and Manage Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Import Data from an External Project Schedule . . . . . . 654
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Edit a Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Delete a Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Build Tasks from Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Synchronize Tasks with Project Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
4D Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Play Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Configure Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Simulation Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Simulation Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Add Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Add Animation to an Entire Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Add Animation to Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Add Scripts to Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
Chapter 15 Locate and Manage Interferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Overview of Clash Detective Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Clash Detective Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Batch Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Rules Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Select Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Results Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Report Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
Set Up and Run a Clash Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Clash Batches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Run Clash Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Manage Batches of Clash Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Merge Clash Tests from Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Import Clash Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Export Clash Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Create Custom Clash Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
Clash Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Select Items for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
Select Items for a Clash Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
Select Clash Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
Time-Based and Soft Clash Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
Time-Based Clashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Soft Clashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700
Time-Based Soft Clashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
Run an Individual Clash Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
Clash Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
Understand Clash Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
Manage Clash Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Review Clash Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
Visually Identify Clashes in a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
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Add Review Comments and Redlines . . . . . . . . . . . . 713
Time-Based and Soft Clash Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
Report Clash Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
Chapter 16 Use the Autodesk Vault Add-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
About the Autodesk Vault Add-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Launching the Vault Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724
Log into a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724
Log out of a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Understanding the Working Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Check Out a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Get Files from a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
Refresh a Vaulted File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
Check a File into a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
Undo File Check Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730
Vault Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Log In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Check In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732
Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
Select Vault Location Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
Create Folder Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
Select File Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
Chapter 17 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
Animation Export Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
Appearance Profiler Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Assign Clash Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
Background Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
Collision Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742
Convert Object Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
Culling Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
Customize Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Toolbars Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Commands Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Default Collision Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
Edit Key Frame Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748
Edit Link Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751
Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751
Export Rendered Image Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
File Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
Culling Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
Orientation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756
Speed Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Headlight Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
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Scene Lights Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
DataTools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
Units and Transform Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Image Export Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
General Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
Communication Center Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
Autodesk Channels Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
Balloon Notification Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
RSS Feeds Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
New Link Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
Options Editor Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
General Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
Undo Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
Locations Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Environment Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Auto-Save Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Interface Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Display Units Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
Selection Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
Measure Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
Snapping Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770
Viewpoint Defaults Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770
Links Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
Quick Properties Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Developer Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
Display Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
3Dconnexion Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781
Navigation Bar Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
ViewCube Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783
SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784
User Interface Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
Model Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
Performance Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
NWD Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790
NWC Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790
File Readers Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
3DS Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
ASCII Laser Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
CIS/2 Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
DGN Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
DWF Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796
DWG/DXF Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797
Faro Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
FBX Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
IFC Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802
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Inventor Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803
Leica Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
JTOpen Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
MAN Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
Parasolid Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
PDS Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Riegl Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
RVM Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808
SAT Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
SKP Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
STL Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
VRML Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Z+F Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
File Exporters Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
DWG Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
Revit Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817
DGN Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Viz/Max Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Tools Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822
Clash Detective Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822
TimeLiner Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
Presenter Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824
Vault Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
Scripter Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
Animator Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
Publish Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
Piranesi EPix Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
QTVR Object Movie Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
Section Plane Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830
Chapter 18 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841
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Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Manage
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2012
Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 software is a comprehensive project review solution for analysis, simulation, and communication of design intent and constructability. Multidisciplinary design data created in Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital prototype, and process plant design applications can be combined into a single integrated project model. Interference management and clash detection tools help design and construction professionals anticipate and avoid potential problems before construction begins, minimizing expensive delays and rework. Navisworks Manage combines spatial coordination with the project schedule to deliver 4D simulation and analysis. Entire project models can be published and freely viewed in NWD and DWF™ file formats.

What Is New in This Release?

Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 contains many new features and enhancements.
Installation
The installation screen provides links to the installation options, deployment options, installation tools and utilities. You also have the option of selecting the DWG file readers that require installation, plus the exporter plugins that you require and the Autodesk Navisworks Freedom viewer.
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User Interface
Easy access to commonly used review and navigation tools to increase review productivity.
■ The Viewpoint tab now includes the Navigate pane, providing access
to tools such as walk, pan, zoom, and orbit; SteeringWheels tracking menus, 3Dconnexion 3D mouse, and the realism settings.
■ The gizmos have been updated, making it easier to manipulate objects and
section planes.
■ Section planes have also been enhanced to provide greater visual feedback
of their position and orientation.
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■ Selection sets can now be created faster with the addition of the Save
Selection option (Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel).
Appearance Profiler
The Appearance Profiler allows you to set up custom appearance profiles based on sets (search and selection) and property values, and use them to color-code objects in the model to differentiate system types and visually identify their status. Appearance profiles can be saved and used on other projects, or shared between other Autodesk Navisworks users.
See Appearance Profiler (page 437).
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TimeLiner
The TimeLiner tool has been enhanced to provide you with greater control and flexibility when working with 4D simulations. A new interface and integrated, editable Gantt chart allow you to create, edit and communicate your construction schedule more effectively. The new TimeLiner API allows you to extend and tailor the 4D toolset to meet your project and business requirements.
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■ The Tasks, Gantt View and Rules tab are now consolidated into a single
Tasks tab.
■ A column chooser allows you to select your preferred grid layout from
three default options or by choosing your own columns.
■ The interactive Gantt Chart lets you manipulate dates in the schedule
by dragging and positioning tasks, start and end dates.
■ A Gantt View is now available during 4D simulations on the Simulate
tab.
■ An ability to quickly add and edit tasks in a project schedule.
■ An ability to filter tasks by their status.
■ An ability to import / export TimeLiner rules for re-use.
■ New TimeLiner .NET API. Using the API you can now obtain a list of
tasks, task types, simulation types and data sources; add, edit and delete tasks, task types, simulation types and data sources and modify their properties; subscribe to events that will be triggered when the GUI or other API users make changes to tasks, task types, simulation types and data sources.
See Overview of the TimeLiner Tool (page 607).
Clash Detective
The Clash Detective tool has a number of improvements to offer better management of your clashes through to resolution. Workflow tools allow you to assign ownership of clashes and improved report tools provide you with a
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batch summary of the status of your clashes and the ability to export a formatted report for direct use in Microsoft® Excel. Better visualization of clashes is supported by a new wireframe view and the Focus on Clash feature.
■ New Assigned To clash attribute, enabling you to assign clashes and clash
groups to an individual or trade, and keep track of the clashes through the Results list and Clash Reports.
■ Summary information of the result statuses for each of the clash tests is
now displayed on the Batch tab.
■ Summary information for the current clash test is now displayed at the
top of the Clash Detective tabs.
■ Automatic notification of any model changes that may invalidate your
clash results.
■ New tabular HTML clash report that opens directly in Microsoft Excel.
■ The option to view clash results using wireframe mode.
■ The ability to reset a viewpoint to focus on the clash results again.
See Overview of Clash Detective Tool (page 669).
Autodesk File Format Support
Autodesk Navisworks now offers 2D DWF and multi-sheet DWF support, allowing you to open, review and explore your 2D datasets alongside your 3D
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models. Importantly, the 2D view is integrated with the 3D environment ­this enables you to select a component in the 3D model and then to find and review the same component in a 2D representation (such as a floor plan or section) providing you with the most appropriate view of the data for the task that you are undertaking. When working with the FBX visualization file format you can now achieve an accurate transfer of materials, textures and lights when importing or exporting data between Autodesk Navisworks and other FBX compatible applications.
■ Support for opening 2D/3D DWF and DWFx files. See DWF File Reader
(page 179).
■ Support for exporting 3D DWF and DWFx files. See Export 3D DWF/DWFx
Files (page 489).
■ Multi-sheet file support. See 2D and Multi-Sheet Files (page 213).
■ 2D/3D Object Association support. See Find All Sheets and Models Con-
taining the Selected Object (page 356).
■ FBX consistent material support for lights, materials, and textures. See FBX
File Reader (page 801).
Extended Support for Revit
A number of interoperability improvements to Revit / Autodesk Navisworks workflows increases your productivity when working with both applications.
■ Revit SwitchBack allows you to quickly transition between views in
Autodesk Navisworks and Revit for easy navigation and location of elements. See Revit SwitchBack (page 436).
■ Support for Revit Construction modelling enables you to pass your
construction parts into Autodesk Navisworks for 4D simulation.
■ Support for Revit linked files.
■ Support for Revit split regions.
■ Support for Revit properties including areas, volumes and points.
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See Revit File Exporter (page 200).
Vault Integration
Autodesk Navisworks now offers integration with the Autodesk Vault data management toolset. Autodesk Vault offers a comprehensive environment for managing the large volume of data that is generated on your projects.
■ Retrieve/save data.
■ Check in/check-out data.
■ Manage file versioning and the relationship between NWF files and design
data.
See Use the Autodesk Vault Add-In (page 723).
General Integration Enhancements
■ Support for Google Sketchup v7 .skp files with backwards compatibility.
■ TimeLiner now offers support for Primavera P6 v7 web services.
■ Support for Pro/Engineer .prt, .asm, .g and .neu file formats.
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■ Point cloud server support. Autodesk Navisworks now supports the retrieval
of data from external point cloud engines for display within your Autodesk Navisworks model. The tool is implemented as an extension to the existing NWCreate API. A simple generic example and a customized example demonstrating connection to Z+F LFM server are available within the NWCreate API resources.
Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2012 Enhancements
■ The Review tab now contains Measure tools supporting field access to
dimensioning and area calculation.
■ You can now open 2D DWF, and multi-sheet DWF files, as well as NWD
files.
■ A Gantt View is now available during 4D TimeLiner simulations.
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
■ Enhanced support for the
■ 3D mouse through an extended interface. See 3Dconnexion 3D Mouse
(page 298).
■ Communication Centre now supports live updates.
■ New avatars to be used in a variety of roles ranging from construction
workers and safety professionals, to office workers. Since avatars can vary per viewpoint, you can easily show how project stakeholders will interact with a specific phase of the project in the relevant context.
■ Ongoing implementation of Autodesk Navisworks .NET API.
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How to Get Assistance

There are various ways to find information about how to use this program, and multiple resources are available.

Find Information Using InfoCenter

You can use InfoCenter to search Autodesk Navisworks help file for information. You can also easily access product updates and announcements.
Overview of InfoCenter
You can use InfoCenter to search for product-related help, display the Subscription Center panel for subscription services, display the Communication Center panel for product updates and announcements, and display the Favorites panel to access saved topics.
You can use InfoCenter to:
■ Search for information in the main product Help through keywords (or
by entering a phrase)
■ Access subscription services through Subscription Center panel
■ Access to product-related updates and announcements through
Communication Center panel
■ Access saved topics through Favorites panel
To display the InfoCenter box in a collapsed state, click the arrow to its left.
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To rearrange the topics displayed on a panel
1 Display a panel by doing one of the following:
■ In the InfoCenter box, click the Subscription Center button.
■ In the InfoCenter box, click the Communication Center button.
■ In the InfoCenter box, click the Favorites button.
2 Click and drag a category or group header to the desired position.
TIP To keep the Subscription Center, Communication Center, and the
Favorites panel expanded, click the push pin icon in the bottom-right corner of the panel.
NOTE You can rearrange categories within a group, but you cannot move them into other groups.
Search for Information
You can enter keywords or a phrase in the InfoCenter box to search for information.
When you enter keywords or a phrase in the InfoCenter box, you search the contents of the main Autodesk Navisworks Help file.
Keyword searches produce better results. The results are listed on the Help Search tab. Click a topic to display it in help.
When you use InfoCenter to search for information, you can use the following special symbols in your query to refine or expand it. These symbols can be used alone or can be combined.
DescriptionSymbol
*
Replaces one or more characters when used at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. For example, “*lish”, “p*lish”, and “pub*” will find “publish”. Also, “anno*” will find “annotative”, “annota­tion”, “annoupdate”, “annoreset”, and so on.
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