Transferring a Viewpoint from Navisworks to BIM 360 Glue

I’ll be the first to admit that this is a bit clunky, but it does work:

1. Go to the Navisworks viewpoint you want, and isolate a single element (hide everything else) that approximates the view extent
2. Click nearest ViewCube corner that approximates the viewpoint you were just using
3. Deselect everything and press Page Down to zoom extents
4. Export to DWF and re-append
5. Delete everything but this new DWF (with a single item in it)
6. Glue this using the addin for Navisworks
7. After Gluing, open this model, click the same ViewCube corner as in step 2, and immediately save the view as a shared view.
8. Make a new Merged Model with this “view” model
9. You now can view that viewpoint from Navisworks in your Merged BIM 360 Glue model 

Another option using Element ID, may suit your workflow better:

1. Copy Element ID from Navisworks
2. Paste the ID into BIM 360 Glue in the Model Search box
3. Right-click and Fit to Window
4. Save the View

I am moved to join ADN and get into the Glue API, more on that later…

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