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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…
This recent post on Dynamo Nodes shows how a simple Navisworks Search Set can be built by Dynamo running inside of Revit: Create Navisworks Search Set XML for Element Ids | Dynamo Nodes In the first r…
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 we make a node that we don’t really want the world (ie. Library / In Canvas search) to see. Can we hide it? Yes. Just add this statement to the dyf header:IsVisibleInDynamoLibrary=”false” It…
If you use a 3Dconnexion mouse with Navisworks, and you have installed the latest drivers (which I highly recommend), you may struggle to find out how to map a Spacebar to a button on your Spacemouse.…
I thought it might be useful to set up a shared folder to allow Navisworks users to upload, download and share resources. The idea here is that lots of Navisworks resources (as listed below) can be ex…
I have posted about KiwiCodes Bonus Tools before, particularly the Excel and data tools. A Sheet Revisions manager has recently been added to the toolset. Check out how quick and easy it is to add rev…
Exporting Navisworks View Names Directly to Text: Download SysExporter Open a Navisworks project Open SysExporter Look for a TreeView Entry with same number of items as you have views Choose Columns –…
Firstly, export the Viewpoints you want to rename to XML. Open the XML in Notepad++. Now we are going to use Search – Replace to append something to the view name in the XML file. Once we get the Find…
Navis uses XML as a data interchange format for almost “everything”. However, it sometimes doesn’t offer the greatest editing experience for that same data in the vanilla UI. You will find that variou…