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Top Five Reasons to Choose Navisworks for Construction

What would you consider the top 5 reasons that made you choose Navisworks for your Construction project?

Here is our selection:

 

1. Easy Interactive Design Review & Visualization

The large and complex models generated for 3D building information modeling (BIM) projects are often difficult to view, explore, and analyze. Autodesk® Navisworks® 3D project review software products use innovative technology to compress files for interactive visualization and smooth real-time walk-through, so you can navigate, explore, and review even the largest and most complex 3D models on standard PCs, without having to master CAD skills or design software.

2. Design & Model Coordination in One Place

Construction professionals frequently need to visualize and coordinate designs in a single, whole-project view with other design consultants or construction disciplines. Autodesk Navisworks 3D project review software products offer compatibility with most major native design and laser-scan file formats, which means that 3D design data created in 3D BIM applications such as AutoCAD® software and Autodesk® Revit®-based products can be combined with geometry and information created with other design tools and then easily reviewed. 

3. Improved Project Collaboration

Navisworks allows you to share your 3D designs with other project stakeholders and offer a single, whole-project view for review or viewing. The single Navisworks whole-project view can be published in both Autodesk Navisworks native NWD format and 3D DWF™ format, giving all stakeholders access. Autodesk Navisworks Freedom software is the free* viewer for both file types. In addition, Navisworks provides design insight and construction or operational predictability with a powerful toolkit that includes measure, mark up, and comment to aid project model understanding and analysis.

4. Save on Project Time & Costs

Autodesk Navisworks allows you to leverage your existing construction planning software to simulate time or planning schedules with 3D models to create 4D construction sequences that can highlight and resolve on-site issues. Both Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage help create an easier-to-understand visual simulation of work processes by linking existing 3D model data and project schedules. In addition, Navisworks Manage can analyze any of the file formats that it can read and delivers more effective identification, inspection, and reporting of interferences in a 3D project model, which means that you can help ensure your design is issue-free before construction begins.

5. Realistic Project Visualization

Navisworks allows you and your project stakeholders to walk-through and experience designs in real-time before they are real, and to rapidly validate and present intent at the early bid or tender stage as a 3D interactive proposal. Open existing CAD or 3D files for real-time walk-through of your projects. Navisworks quickly creates high-quality rendered images and animation that you can realistically visualize and present easily in 3D. The experience can be extended, giving all stakeholders access to the whole-project view using Autodesk Navisworks Freedom software.

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Brilliant Navisworks 2010 Enhancements

Navisworks 2010 now also offers a Subscription Advantage Pack for their 2010 relase version. 

There are three notable additions available through the Subscription Center:

• Autodesk FBX File Format Support
• Batch Processing Utility
• NWC Export Utility

Remember, you need to be a Navisworks subscription customer to be able to download these additions.

Note: Autodesk Navisworks 2010 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 can only be applied to Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010, Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010, and Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2010. It cannot be applied to other products. You need to have Navisworks 2010 Service Pack 1 installed first before you can install this bonus pack.

I will talk more about each of the items in the coming days.

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Showcase Your Navisworks Models

All Navisworks users are encouraged to share and showcase their Navisworks models. Files can be uploaded to the AutoCAD Exchange Showcase, where you can see the work of your peers as well as showcase your own work.

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Try Autodesk Navisworks Manage!

Autodesk Navisworks Manage lets you reliably share, combine and review detailed 3D design models from multiple file formats.

Clash Detection tools let you analyze interferences in a single model environment to find faults before they become problems.

Real-time visualization and simulation allow you to validate design performance and reduce waste. Try it now, for free!

 

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Autodesk Navisworks Manage allows you to:

Improve quality

• Experience the whole project before it is real by using real-time visualization and review to help validate design performance.
• Simulate construction schedules by linking to the 3D data, and view interferences in time and space.

Reduce errors

• Analyze interferences in a single model environment to find and fix design faults before they become real problems.
• Use real-time visualization, simulation and analysis of whole projects to help validate design performance, streamline the workflow process across the organization and reduce waste, thus increasing efficiency and reducing change orders.

Save time

• Quickly challenge, check, and share detailed design data to improve quality and increase productivity. Place an accessible, information-rich, whole-project model linking to time, cost, and any other database information at the hub of any BIM project.

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Navisworks Model Interaction through ActiveX - Very Cool!

Check out this page, where you can view a Navisworks model over the web via an ActiveX control.

No installation needed, very cool!

Just select the sample model from the drop down list and use the buttons on the left to change the current navigation mode.

The page also includes two point clouds scans that our friends in the U.K. have shared with us. Please note that the loading of the point cloud takes a wee bit longer.

Please share any feedback you may have.

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Navisworks Simulation sans frontières - Français

Autodesk Navisworks 2010 - Fonctionnalités

Les logiciels Autodesk® Navisworks® vous aident, vous et vos équipes, à gagner en visibilité et en prévisibilité, pour une maîtrise optimale et une collaboration de confiance. La famille Autodesk Navisworks compte trois logiciels de révision de projets de conception 3D et une application de visualisation gratuite*.

BIM - Video

Autodesk Navisworks Manage

• Fichier 3D et agrégation de données
• Navigation en temps réel
• Kit d’outils de révision
• Publication aux formats NWD et 3D DWF
• Nomenclatures 4D
• Visualisation photoréaliste
• Capacités d’animation d’objets
• Détection des conflits et gestion des interférences
• Puissante combinaison de toutes les fonctionnalités

Autodesk Navisworks Simulate

• Fichier 3D et agrégation de données
• Navigation en temps réel
• Kit d’outils de révision
• Publication aux formats NWD et 3D DWF
• Nomenclatures 4D
• Visualisation photoréaliste
• Capacités d’animation d’objets

Autodesk Navisworks Review

• Fichier 3D et agrégation de données
• Navigation en temps réel
• Kit d’outils de révision
• Publication aux formats NWD et 3D DWF

Application de visualisation gratuite* Autodesk Navisworks Freedom:

• Révision gratuite* aux formats NWD et 3D DWF
• Lecture d’animations d’objets et de simulation 4D
• Vue arborescente de sélection de modèle
• Vue de propriétés d’objets
• Vue de points de vue
• Vue de commentaires

* Les produits gratuits sont soumis aux termes et conditions énoncés dans l’accord de licence d’utilisateur final joint à la version téléchargeable du logiciel.

Autodesk Navisworks for Manufacturing - Interference Checking

"Autodesk® Navisworks® software for manufacturing allows you to experience real-time fly through and walk through your digital factory models.

Combine together product data, tooling & fixture data, layout and facilities data from different CAD formats and create a single 3D digital model of your factory.

Analyze the model to check for collisions and identify space constraints. The digital factory model can also be published in a highly compressed lightweight format and shared with suppliers and partners to give all stakeholders complete access to the information."

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Navisworks Manage 2010 System Requirements

Please ensure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements. If your system does not meet these requirements, problems can occur, both within Autodesk Navisworks and at the operating system level.

No matter whether your Windows operating system is the 32-bit or the 64-bit version, it is automatically detected during installation.

Note: Both the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010 can be installed on a 64-bit version of Windows, but the 64-bit version of Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010 cannot be installed on a 32-bit version of Windows.

See the following for hardware and software requirements.

System Requirement for Standalone Installation

 

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System Requirements for a Deployment

This section contains the system requirements for the location of the administrative image that you create, the network license server, and the client workstation.

Before you begin installing the program on a network, make sure that your servers and client workstations meet the minimum recommended hardware and software requirements for a deployment.

Whether the Windows operating system is the 32-bit or the 64-bit version is automatically detected when installing Autodesk Navisworks. You can choose which versions of Navisworks will be installed.

Note: Both the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010 can be installed on a 64-bit version of Windows, but the 64-bit version of Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010 cannot be installed on a 32-bit version of Windows.

See the following for administrative image, license server, and client workstation system requirements.

 

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As always, we invite you to share any comments, concerns or suggestions you may have.

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Showcase your Success with Autodesk Navisworks

Are you ready to showcase your achievements with Autodesk Navisworks?

No one knows the benefits of Autodesk Navisworks better then you. You’ve leveraged the application and it's features to achieve realworld benefits and outstanding business outcomes.

Now we offer you with an opportunity to share your success with others who wish to achieve similar results. Your success gives you the ability to highlight your company’s image, promote the value of success to your internal and external stakeholders, and spark new opportunities by expanding your reach across the Autodesk Navisworks community and beyond.

We invite you to participate in activities that provide high visibility for your team and company, by sharing your success story with us. You could submit press releases, testimonials, case studies, video  interviews or just contact us and we will work with you to see how we best present your success.

Interested customers are invited to contact me via email.

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Autodesk Navisworks Visualization - Video

This video covers visualization of large factory layouts, highlighting the need for real time walk-through and fly-methods on standard PCs. Check it out!

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"Autodesk® Navisworks® software for manufacturing allows you to experience real-time fly through and walk through your digital factory models. Combine together product data, tooling & fixture data, layout and facilities data from different CAD formats and create a single 3D digital model of your factory. Analyze the model to check for collisions and identify space constraints. The digital factory model can also be published in a highly compressed lightweight format and shared with suppliers and partners to give all stakeholders complete access to the information."

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