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Recently I had an issue sharing colour overrides from Navisworks to BIM 360 Glue. This has been ok for a while, but something broke. After some investigation, it turns out that one of the sub-Models i…
If you have a Navisworks crashing or Navisworks not starting up problem, you might try resetting Navisworks settings. Here’s how: Open Windows Explorer Type %appdata% in the address bar Rename the rel…
Have you ever wondered how to increase the image resolution exported by Navisworks during a Clash Report? You can set this in the Registry, look in bottom left corner of image for the location of this…
I have posted some other methods before… Batch Convert DWF to Revit using Navisworks How to Convert a DWF to Editable Format, or How to Export from Navisworks and Keep Modelling in BIM Export Geometry…
Navisworks is pretty amazing at handling a huge set of properties across a large amount of elements. However, sometimes it can be hard to diagnose why a particular parameter, such as a Shared Paramete…
XML files are everywhere. And in the BIM world, we have to deal with a range of different xml file schemas, such as BCF, Navisworks Clash Reports and Viewpoints, and so forth. Hiding inside these XMLs…
Sometimes you have a set of DWFs that you would like to work with in Revit. For example, you might have DWFs of site equipment, fences and trucks that would be useful for site modelling in Revit. Here…
One of my most liked posts on the Ideastation is this one, where I request the ability to share viewpoints between Navisworks and Glue. This functionality has finally been provided in Service Pack 3 f…
Here is the Application Manager version of SP3 for Navisworks Manage 2016:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/NAVMAN/2016/Autodesk_Navisworks_2016_SP3_ML_Manage_64bit.msp Other links: Autode…
Simon Moreau has shared a nice addin for Navisworks that allows the automatic grouping of clashes. From his blog:“This plug-in enables a lot of possibilities for sorting clash detection results in a m…