Category: Navisworks

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Reset Navisworks to Default Settings

Luke Johnson

If you have a Navisworks crashing or Navisworks not starting up problem, you might try resetting Navisworks settings.

Here’s how:

  1. Open Windows Explorer
  2. Type %appdata% in the address bar
  3. Rename the relevant Navisworks folder here with a .bak extension
  4. Start Navisworks

Note: You can actually get to the options from the start menu, even if Navis won’t launch…

 

There are other places that Navis may stash some settings. You may also want to check out:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/navisworks-forum/apply-simulate-manage-default-settings-automatically/td-p/2778014

How To Edit Navisworks Clash Report Export Image Size

Luke Johnson

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 key:

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Also note, Navisworks 2016 is 13.0 in the Registry.

More Navis tips:
What Revit Wants: Thirteen Navisworks Tips to Boost your Productivity for 2014

Five Navisworks Tips to Improve Your Productivity

Luke Johnson

Here is a few quick tips that I had sitting in draft post:

  • To delete lots of views quickly, select and then press Delete key. Do not try to right-click.
  • To combine multiple Clash Groups in the Clash Detective, select the groups, Ungroup (sub-clashes will be selected by default), then Re-group..
  • To delete multiple empty clash groups, drag a clash into one of them. Then, Select All the Groups and you can Explode Group
  • If you Append an NWD, the views with saved Hide/Required and Material Overrides will import “correctly” with these settings (but a Viewpoints XML cannot import these element hide and colour settings)
  •  Use Properties+ … it is simply the fastest way to test and build Search Sets

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How to Build Navisworks Search Sets from Revit Elements and Properties

Luke Johnson
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 release, this node just uses Element Ids to build a long ‘or‘ search set, but this basic idea could easily be extended and adapted to more closely connect Revit to Navisworks search workflows through Dynamo.

Here is a Screencast:

How to View Extended Parameter Information in Navisworks with Developer Options

Luke Johnson

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 Parameter, is not displaying or grouping in a way that you might expect.

To figure out what is going on, go into Navisworks Options – Interface – Developer and tick the two boxes:
Show Internal Properties
Show Property Internal Names

Now, when you use the Properties palette you will see additional information in brackets, which essentially amounts to the Navisworks ‘internal parameter name’ for a given piece of data. Pretty cool!

Thanks for this tip goes to Jason Howden, from RTV Tools, a Platinum sponsor here at What Revit Wants.

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Related forum post:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/navisworks-general-discussion/navisworks-manage-2015-amp-revit-project-parameter-problem/m-p/5672998#M9579