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Get Navisworks Manage 2019 Update 5 download link here. Fixes FBX Security Vulnerability • Fixes critical customer reported issues. There is no major file format or API change. Revit Files • Fixes pro…
Fixes When loading merged models from BIM 360 Glue, selection sets and clash tests that were created with Navisworks 2018 or earlier now show and maintain the correct individual model or file selectio…
When Revizto Stamps were first released, I didn’t fully understand how powerful they would become – but now, Stamps are probably the most widely used method of issue creation in the entire Revizto eco…
Having recently installed some more storage hardware, and previously posted about moving folders with symbolic links, I then decided to move my BIM 360 Glue cache folder and Navisworks Cache folder to…
Experienced Navisworks Coordinators typically have a very solid workflow in place for grouping clashes into clash groups. Some prefer to do that part manually (with selection and filters), so they can…
Models change rapidly at various stages of the project, and it can be useful to review model status between different revisions of the models. What changed? Why? There are a number of Model Compare to…
Interesting little release by Dimitar Venkov on Github a few months ago. It is essentially a Python shell for Navisworks 2016. You install by unzipping as per instructions below. You may have heard ab…
I’ve had a mixed experience using the Nvidia GTX 980 card in Navisworks and Revit, but I have one particular tip that helped in Navisworks 2017: Turn OFF CPU Occlusion Culling My CPU is an i7-6700K th…
Navisworks works really well with Point Clouds, particularly in association with Recap. It will usually create ‘voxels’ – groups of points that you can hide or change colour or use in other Navisworks…
Parts allow some extremely powerful workflows in Revit. Did you know that you can take an in-place family, and when you Divide Parts, Revit will make an individual Part for each geometric element? For…