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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*.

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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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Here Comes Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2010

Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate software offers precise replication of design intent and modeling of 4D 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 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 3D 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 4D 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 3D 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. 4D 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 4D 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 3D model data to project schedules for fast 4D 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.

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As always, please send us any feedback, comments or suggestions you may have.

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Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010 - New Features

Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage 2010 software is a complete review solution for design and construction management professionals seeking powerful insight and predictability to improve productivity and project quality. 3D design data, both geometry and information, can be combined, regardless of authoring design tools or file size.

Autodesk Navisworks combines precise fault-finding analysis and interference management together with dynamic 4D project schedule simulation and photorealistic visualization. Entire project models can be published and freely viewed in NWD and 3D DWF™ formats.

Today we cover two new features - both can be found in Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage 2010. Most of the other new features can be located in a similar article here (covering new features of Autodesk® Navisworks® Review 2010).

TimeLiner

The TimeLiner tool adds 4D schedule simulation to Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010. TimeLiner imports schedules from a variety of sources, allows you to connect objects in the model with tasks in the schedule and simulate the schedule showing the effects on the model, including planned against actual schedules. TimeLiner also allows the export of images and animations based on the results of the simulation. TimeLiner will automatically update the simulation if the model or schedule changes.

Changes to the TimeLiner tool support improved integration with third-party planning tools, and make adding and editing dates more intuitive.

• Copy and paste TimeLiner dates
• Import and export support for the CSV file format
• Attach a selection to multiple TimeLiner tasks.

Clash Management

The Clash Detective tool enables effective identification, inspection, and reporting of interferences (clashes) in a 3D project model. It can help you to reduce the risk of human error during model inspections. One can use it as a one-off 'sanity check' for a completed design work, or it can be used as an ongoing audit check of the project. You can also use Clash Detective to conduct clash tests between traditional 3D geometry (triangles), and laser-scanned point clouds.

Managing multiple clashes has been enhanced, and contextual analysis of a clash relative to the model has been improved.

• Group clash results into folders and subfolders to manage large numbers of clashes or related clashes
• Review clash results in the context of its surrounding geometry
• By modifying Clash Detective results display options (enable Dim Other and disable Hide Other), you can make surrounding geometry transparent when reviewing clashes
• Smoothly zoom between clashes when reviewing multiple clashes
• A Reviewed status can be applied to a clash to indicate that a clash has been reviewed but not yet resolved
• Create a new clash rule to ignore clashes between objects that are connected, as identified by specific properties on each item, or parent item

What do you make of the new release of Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage 2010?

Please share any feedback, comments or suggestions you may have.

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What's New in Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010?

Autodesk® Navisworks® Review 2010 software extends access to existing design data for real-time visualization to experience design projects before they are real. Project quality improves by combining and sharing of 3D design data and information, regardless of file size or format. Easy-to-use design review tools improve insight and understanding of design intent. Entire project models can be published and freely viewed in NWD and 3D DWF™ formats to provide valuable digital assets during and after construction.

Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010 contains many new features and enhancements and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce them to you.

Installation

The installation screen provides links to the installation options, deployment options, installation tools and utilities, documentation and language settings. When installing the product you can select to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version. You also have the option of selecting the DWG file readers that require installation, plus the exporter plugins that you require.

If you are installing the product on a 32-bit operating system the 64-bit install options are inaccessible.

User Interface

Changes to the Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010 interface more closely align the product with Autodesk standard interface and navigation toolsets.

ViewCube 

The ViewCube is an on-screen widget, shaped like a cube, that rotates as you orbit your 3D scene and provides you with feedback about your current camera viewing angle in relation to the model world. See ViewCube.

Steering Wheels

SteeringWheels are task-based floating tool palettes that travel with the cursor to minimize tool access time. SteeringWheels provide access to different navigation tools grouped into various wheels depending on the navigation task and user skill level. See SteeringWheels.

Button Menus

In Autodesk Navisworks, some toolbar buttons exist in mutually-exclusive groups of which only one at a time can be selected. These buttons are now grouped under drop-down menus to improve accessibility and decrease screen clutter.

Artificial Horizon

You can now place your model against a fixed artificial horizon so that it appears more realistic and does not float in mid air. The background of the 3D scene is split across the horizontal plane giving the effect of a sky and the ground. The resulting artificial horizon gives you an indication of your orientation in the 3D world. See Select Background Effect.

Measurement

Numerous improvements to the measurement tools allow greater accuracy when calculating dimensions and distances between objects in your Autodesk Navisworks model.

Measure Shortest Distance - When measuring the distance between two objects, Autodesk Navisworks can now calculate and display the shortest distance between the selected objects.

Measure distance between center lines of parametric objects.

When measuring distances you now have the option of converting measurements into redlines. The end markers, lines, and dimension labels of your current measurement are converted into a redline and stored in the current viewpoint.

When measuring an angle, Autodesk Navisworks now displays a measurement arc.

When measuring an area, Autodesk Navisworks now displays a dotted line to indicate the closure path for the area.

Sectioning

Improved support for quick and accurate analysis of models using the sectioning toolset.

• Create a user-defined section box to display only geometry within the defined section box.
• Align section planes to specific faces of an object or line.

Auto-Save

• You now have the option of automatically saving your work at regular intervals.

Communication Center

• The Communication Center  allows the Autodesk Navisworks and Autodesk team to notify you of product-related updates and announcements.

File Format Support

• Support for JT file format, supporting most geometry types and object attributes.
• Support for CIMSteel Integration Standards (CIS/2).

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010 is available for full 64-bit installation.
• Manual override option allows you to specify the distance of Near and Far Clipping Planes. 
• When entering invalid values in the Options Editor, you are notified of the error.
• You can now configure site and project folders at install time, making deployment across an organization easier.
• Upgrades to the Autodesk Navisworks rendering engine (LADS) provide improved support for PNG transparencies and improved rendering consistency.
• Improved Revit support for: shared coordinates, rebars, True North, views, and viewpoints exported from Revit 9 and later.

Feedback, Comments or suggestions? We would love to hear what you have to say.

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Introducing Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010

Autodesk® Navisworks® Freedom 2010 software is the free viewer for NWD files.

Autodesk Navisworks products can combine design data created with a variety of design tools, and then publish the entire model to NWD format including properties, comments, viewpoints and 4D playback.

Navisworks Freedom and the compact, secure, and streamable NWD file format give all project stakeholders access to the whole-project view. Quality is improved by enabling widespread real-time experience of entire design projects before they are real.

New Features

User Interface

ViewCube.The ViewCube is an on-screen widget, shaped like a cube, that rotates as you orbit your 3D scene and provides you with feedback about your current camera viewing angle in relation to the model world. 

SteeringWheels. SteeringWheels are task-based floating tool palettes that travel with the cursor to minimize tool access time. SteeringWheels provide access to different navigation tools grouped into various wheels depending on the navigation task and user skill level.

 

Button menus.In Autodesk Navisworks, some toolbar buttons exist in mutually-exclusive groups of which only one at a time can be selected. These buttons are now grouped under drop-down menus to improve accessibility and decrease screen clutter.

Artificial horizon. You can now place your model against a fixed artificial horizon so that it appears more realistic and does not float in mid air. The background of the 3D scene is split across the horizontal plane giving the effect of a sky and the ground. The resulting artificial horizon gives you an indication of your orientation in the 3D world.

Communication Center

Providing the Autodesk Navisworks team with an opportunity to notify you of updates and other noteworthy news.

Other Improvements

• Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010 is available for 64-bit installations.

• Manual override option allows you to specify the distance of Near and Far Clipping Planes. 

• When entering invalid values in the Options Editor, you are notified of the error.

• Upgrades to the Autodesk Navisworks rendering engine (LADS) provide improved support for PNG transparencies and improved rendering consistency.

What do you make of the new release? Please feel free to provide feedback through the blog or by contacting me directly via email.

Thank you.